Who’s Minding the Store? — A Report Card on Retailer Actions to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals evaluates the progress made and challenges that remain since last year’s report card and the launch of the Mind the Store campaign, Campaign for Healthier Solutions, Getting Ready for Baby campaign, and … Read More
Conclusion & Recommendations
Retailers remain on the frontlines of consumer discontent with product safety and hazardous chemicals in everyday household products and food packaging. During the past year, more than a dozen of Noth America’s largest retailers have taken significant steps to address harmful chemicals such as PFAS … Read More
Key Findings
1.PHASE-OUTs: Several retailers are phasing out the use of PFAS, ortho-phthalates, bisphenols, and other classes of chemicals of concern in products and packaging. 2.FOOD PACKAGING: For the first time, several major retailers publicly announced policies to restrict dangerous chemicals in food … Read More
How Retailers Rank on Toxic Chemicals
In the fourth annual report card on toxic chemicals that can be in consumer products, the Mind the Store campaign evaluated forty-three of the largest retailers in North America. Learn how each retailer scored by clicking the name or logo in the table below. You can sort the retailers … Read More
Introduction
It is more important than ever for retailers to leverage their market power and influence to drive hazardous chemicals out of consumer products, packaging, and global supply chains. Over the past year, the Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continued with weak implementation of recent … Read More
Executive Summary
Amid rising concern about highly toxic ‘forever chemicals’ that have been found in drinking water and food, major retail chains are taking steps to rid their products and packaging of these PFAS (or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). In a first, The Home Depot (who earned a B+ grade this year) … Read More