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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.

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