Dollar Tree

Key Findings and Recommendations

• Corporate Commitment: Dollar Tree has made a commitment to reducing toxic chemicals by adopting a publicly available safer chemicals policy, assigned senior management with responsibility for implementation, and participates in the Chemical Footprint Project. Dollar Tree should publicly support governmental policies to reduce chemicals and plastics of high concern.
• Transparency: Dollar Tree requires suppliers of all formulated products to report ingredients through the third-party UL WERCSmart system and encourages suppliers to report the same information to consumers. The company should require similar transparency from its suppliers of articles. The company should also commit to calculate and publicly disclose its chemical footprint. Any public-facing chemical information, including but not limited to chemical hazard notices and chemical policies, should be translated into Spanish and other languages in order to enhance accessibility to health-relevant information.
• Ban the Bad: Dollar Tree restricts multiple chemical classes including cadmium and cadmium compounds, phthalates, and PFAS, along with 15 additional chemicals in varying product categories. It also restricts PVC in children’s products. Dollar Tree has a goal to eliminate PFAS in private-label pet food products and PVC in all private-label children’s products by 2024. Dollar Tree has not publicly documented progress on reducing chemicals of high concern or plastics of high concern beyond regulatory compliance in the last four years.
• Safer Solutions: There is no indication that Dollar Tree has supported the development or sale of safer products. Dollar Tree should work to ensure substitutes for chemicals and plastics of high concern are safer for the health of consumers, communities, workers, and the environment.