• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Safer Chemicals Healthy Families

A national effort to protect families from toxic chemicals.

  • Get Involved
  • Our Work
    • News
    • Public Policy
    • Mind the Store
    • Successes
  • Get the Facts
  • About
  • Donate

household dust

Ashley Furniture Eliminates Toxic Flame Retardants in Furniture! (UPDATE)

In the last few years awareness about the toxicity in flame retardant chemicals in furniture has grown tremendously. Ashley is phasing out toxic flame retardants in their furniture. But they haven’t disclosed when these chemicals will be eliminated.

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: Ashley Furniture, buying furniture, cancer, chemicals, Chicago Tribune, Customers, doctors, environmental, environmentalists, EPA, exposure, families, flame retardants, health, HEPA filter vacuum, household dust, Katy Farber, mind the store, nontoxic kids, organizations, phthalates, policy, products, public health advocates, retailers, toxic, toxic flame retardants, bill, saferchemicals, safer, new, state, store

Flame Retardants: Invisible and Unwanted Hitchhikers

Several years ago, I was presented with an amazing opportunity to do an extensive research study focusing on how toxic chemicals get out of products in our homes and make their way to our rivers, lakes, and other waters. One of our coalition partners, Columbia Riverkeeper, had made the funding possible so that we could really dig into this question.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: action, cancer, chemicals, Columbia River, environmental, environmental impacts, EPA, exposure, families, federal legislation, flame retardants, health, household dust, phthalates, policy, policy and regulations, products, retailers, toxic, Tris compounds, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, washington toxics coalition, wastewater, wastewater treatment plants, waterways, bill, saferchemicals, safer, new, state, store

Primary Sidebar

rain jacket

Tell REI: Stop leaving a toxic trail of pollution

Take Action

Subscribe to Posts

Get our latest posts delivered to your inbox.

Get the Facts

These chemicals are linked to serious environmental and health problems. Check out our fact sheets, which draw from the leading peer-reviewed science.

  • Bisphenol A (BPA) & Bisphenol S (BPS)
  • Formaldehyde
  • Methylene chloride
  • Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals (PBTs)
  • PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)
  • Phthalates
  • Toxic flame retardants
Other Chemicals »

Footer

Contact Us

200 Massachusetts Ave NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20001
Email

Search

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

© 2022 Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families — All rights reserved.

  • About Us
  • Privacy policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Feed