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Mike Schade

Mike Schade

Mind the Store Campaign Director

Mike Schade is the Campaign Director for Mind the Store, a program that challenges the nation’s leading retailers to transform the marketplace away from hazardous chemicals and towards safer alternatives. For the previous nine years, Mike was the Markets Campaign Coordinator with the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ), a national environmental health organization where he led national campaigns to phase out PVC plastic, phthalates, bisphenol A (BPA) and dioxin in consumer products and packaging. Prior to CHEJ, he was the Director of the Buffalo office of Citizens’ Environmental Coalition (CEC), a NY statewide grassroots environmental health organization. He has a B.S. in Environmental Studies from the University at Buffalo and lives in Newburgh, NY.

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REI members speak out: it’s time for toxic PFAS to take a hike!

In recent weeks, scores of REI members have spoken out on the co-op’s message board, demanding the company respond to questions regarding whether it will phase out and ban toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” in the products it sells at its upcoming member meeting.

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: PFAS, REI, outdoor apparel, Eric Artz

Great news: Best Buy restricts a class of toxic flame retardant chemicals in its Exclusive Brand TVs

Best Buy has announced a major new commitment to safer products: all newly designed models of Best Buy’s Exclusive Brand televisions will no longer contain toxic organohalogen flame retardants (OFRs) in the display enclosures and stands, starting this year. 

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: banning toxic flame retardant chemical, Best Buy, Clean Water Action, television, toxic flame retardants, Walmart, Sony, Amazon, Toxic-Free Future, Samsung, Hisense, organohalogen chemicals, success, LG, OFRs

60,000+ REI customers tell REI: end the toxic trail of PFAS pollution

Over the last two months, nearly 60,000 REI members and customers have signed petitions and sent emails to REI CEO Eric Artz and the company’s Board of Directors calling for it to “opt out” of PFAS.

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: patagonia, PFAS, REI, outdoor apparel, Eric Artz

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