The nonprofit Toxic-Free Future graded brands including Apple, Sephora, Target, and Walmart.
, a nonprofit consumer product safety organization, revealed that most retailers in the United States and Canada are falling short when it comes to ensuring that the products they sell are made with the safest chemicals and materials on the market.
The latest report scored the practices and policies of the 50 largest retailers in the United States and Canada, a broad group representing 160 businesses and over 200,000 outlets selling billions of dollars of products. Also getting an F is Inspire Brands, the parent company for Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s and Sonic, as well asUlta also received high marks for improvement as the brand doubled its score from 2021 to 2024, proving that progress is possible.The organization also found that more than half of the retailers they analyzed are banning some dangerous chemical and harmful plastics, while 68% are reducing things like PVC and PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals.
They also examined whether retailers have “banned the bad,” or adopted minimum criteria for safer chemicals, and implemented “safer solutions” — considered alternatives to chemicals and plastics of deep concern, and invested in implementing safer substitutes.
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