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I'm sorry to be the one to tell you that.
"Green toys move to the mainstream; Backing from big names expected to spur market" by Esme E. Deprez, Bloomberg News | March 28, 2010
NEW YORK — When Norma Ramos went to the Wal-Mart in North Bergen, N.J., last week to shop for her son’s birthday party, she passed over the plastic toys in favor of wooden ones with minimal paint.
Wal-Mart, huh?
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Think of that the next time you open the box you just bought, shopper.
GREEN is a SCAM!
It is PAINFUL, but true!
Until the WAR MACHINE and the RAPACIOUS GLOBALISM it serves are brought to heel we will get nowhere with crap like this.
“Five years ago, I never paid attention,’’ said Ramos, 36, a mother of three who says she now smells toys to make sure they’re free of plastic odor. “Then I thought about what kind of environment my children’s children would grow up in.’’
So sad that the WARS will not be over, isn't it?
And the lies the kids have to live with these days!
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Wham-O Inc., and Warren Buffett’s Garan Inc. are backing toys made from natural or recycled materials.
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Also see: Money Monday: Market Movers
Yeah, the big Buff is looking out for you and the environment.
As customers such as Ramos get choosier, sales of green toys may balloon to $1 billion, or as much as 5 percent of toy sales in the next five years, according to Earthsense, a Syracuse, N.Y., environmental research firm. The heightened interest in green toys is a progression from the trend’s popularity in household cleaning and personal-care products, according to Catherine Fox-Simpson, a retail consultant at BDO Seidman....
Yup, ALWAYS about $$$ when you reach bottom in the agenda-pushing paper$.
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