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As consumers increasingly demand less toxic products and laws require the use of safer chemicals, retailers are requiring suppliers to stop using harmful chemicals in consumer products. All the more reason for Washington state legislators to pass the Pollution Prevention for Our Future Act, which prioritizes similar chemical classes for phaseouts.
Five classes of chemicals in consumer products are emerging as particular concern for the health of both humans and orcas. What is this toxic soup of chemicals and what can we do about them?
In response to our report on toxic nonstick PFAS chemicals in food packaging, Whole Foods and Trader Joe's announced plans to avoid packaging containing the harmful chemicals. But what exactly does that mean for consumers and the market as a whole? Here's the scoop.
Big retailers can help protect consumer health and increase demand for safer products by adopting chemical policies to reduce toxic chemicals in products they sell. The 2018 Retailer Report Card grades retailers on their efforts to reduce toxic chemicals. Find out how Pacific Northwest retailers and all your favorite retailers fared.
On October 5, Amazon issued its first-ever public safer chemicals policy. The policy includes restrictions on dozens of toxic phthalates, parabens, formaldehyde releasers, nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs), triclosan, and toluene in its private brand baby, household cleaning, personal care, and beauty products in the United States.
ChemSec's Marketplace website is meant to be a hub where buyers and sellers can meet. It’s a bit like eBay or Craigslist, but instead of vintage watches and job postings, Marketplace connects companies with safer alternatives to toxic chemicals.
As the federal government continues to roll back and undermine critical environmental and public health protections, we are amplifying our efforts in the marketplace to drive hazardous chemicals out of our homes and communities through our Mind the Store campaign.
One way we continue to do that is through our annual Who’s Minding the Store? retailer report card, which benchmarks the progress of the nation’s biggest retailers toward requiring products they sell utilize safer chemicals for consumers and workers.
You may not find them included in the ingredient list, on the nutrition label, or anywhere on the food package. Yet they can impact your health just as sugar or hydrogenated oils can. They are hidden toxic chemicals and they’re contaminating our food.
When an item is physically small, it may not convey the impact it has on the world. Paper receipts are small slips that carry with them vast environmental costs and can pose risks to our health through direct contact.
Sophia Ruan Gushée left her successful career in investment management to study our toxic exposures from what we buy and do. She shares her expertise in her critically-acclaimed book A to Z of D-Toxing.