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Retailer Report Card

Toxics Usage / Retail Study

27 November 2024

4 minutes

The 2024 Retailer Report Card outlines clear steps that retailers must take to improve their performance and protect public health. These include embracing The Four Essential Elements for a Safer Marketplace, which includes: adopting comprehensive safer chemicals policies; requiring full transparency from suppliers; restricting toxic chemicals and plastics in products and packaging; and implementing safer solutions to chemicals and plastics of high concern.

Retailers Failing to Protect Consumers from Toxic Chemicals and Plastics, Finds Study

The 2024 Retailer Report Card analyses 50 major US and Canadian retailers representing 160 businesses that generate over $4 trillion in annual revenue and hold significant influence over the use of toxic chemicals in their supply chains.

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