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Retailers taking action on toxics: Target & CVS make progress, Walmart slides backward

In brief: Target and CVS Health made progress on phasing out toxic chemicals in their products, while Walmart’s chemical footprint grew by millions of pounds. Top highlights include: Target will phase out BPA, BPS, and all bisphenols from its thermal receipt paper by the end of 2020, and it made progress on PFAS in private-label […]

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: bisphenols, BPA, BPA in receipts, chemical footprint, Clean Water Action, CVS, Green America, Leah Segedie, Mamavation, PFAS, success, Target, Walmart

New tool launched to help retailers move toward safer chemicals

As retailers increasingly respond to public demand to sell products that contain fewer toxic chemicals, a group of corporate and NGO leaders today released a new tool to establish common benchmarks intended to inform and hasten market movement toward safer chemicals.

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: CFP, chemical footprint, chemical footprint project, Clean Production Action, lowell center for sustainable production, mind the store, pure strategies, retailers, safer chemicals

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