Wallmart, the world’s largest retailer announced that it would begin disclosing chemicals product while phasing out approxiamately ten chemicals from product they sell. This will be practise from 2015 and apply to cleaners, personal care products, cosmetics and baby care. Walmart declined to say which specific chemicals would be phased out but they did confirm that all 10 appear on the Hazardous Hundred+” lost.
Andy Igrejas, executive director of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families said
“This is an unusually substantive announcement and Walmart deserves credit for that. We’re encouraged that they’ve described this is as just the beginning of action on chemicals rather than an end,”
“Clearly, the problem is much bigger, but Walmart’s announcement today appears to be a meaningful down payment on an enhanced chemical policy. We urge other the other retailers to both learn from and improve upon it,”
“While the number of chemicals is limited, the action is meaningful. They are not just moving away from several known toxic chemicals but are going deeper, using their position to make sure the alternatives are safer,
That’s progress that can ripple across the marketplace.”
Walmart also announced that it will pursue EPA’s Design for the Environment(DfE) imprimatur for it’s private label products.
Source :- Examiner