Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

A national effort to protect families from toxic chemicals.

The Home Depot

Buyer beware: dangerous paint strippers still sold at AutoZone and other stores

In 2018, we won a wave of commitments from eleven of North America’s largest retailers to ban the sale of paint strippers containing the toxic chemicals methylene chloride and N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP). To see how these retailer policy commitments have been implemented, campaign staff, partner organizations and volunteers are visiting stores across the country to see whether retailers are following through to “mind the store.”