Panel 3: How to measure the performance of different chemical management

1. Benchmarking Retailers on Policies to Address Toxic
Chemicals
Driving a Race to the Top in the Retail Sector
Mike Schade, Mind the Store campaign director
Safer Chemicals Healthy Families

2. Who’s Minding the Store? annual retailer report
card
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3. Who’s Minding the Store? 2018 Retailer Report Card
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4. Forty retailers evaluated in
twelve key retail sectors
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5. Brief summary of our approach
• Evaluation of retailers based on publicly
available information
• 14 criteria, harmonized with Chemical
Footprint Project (CFP)
• 135 possible number points and
corresponding letter grades
• Draft scores shared with companies in
advance
• More details:
https://retailerreportcard.com/2018/10/
methodology-2018/ 5

6. The fourteen criteria for
benchmarking retailers
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7. The fourteen criteria (continued)
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10. Top retailers continue to strengthen or adopt new
chemical policies
• Since 2016, eleven retailers improved their
grade from a D+ to a C+.
• Twenty-one out of twenty-nine retailers
(72%) evaluated in 2017 and 2018 improved
over the last year.
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11. New retailer policy developments since the
release of 2018 MTS retailer report card
• Lowe’s – launches safer chemicals policy
• Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s – takes action on PFAS in FCM’s
• Amazon – bans toxic paint strippers by March 2019
• Target – launches “clean label” program
• Walmart – creating list of “priority chemicals” in and the
manufacturing of apparel for elimination by 2025
• Dollar Tree – participating in Chemical Footprint Project in
2019

12. Thank you.
Mike Schade
Mind the Store Campaign Director
Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
mikeschade@saferchemicals.org
www.SaferChemicals.org
www.RetailerReportCard.com
Twitter: @SaferChemicals @Mike_Schade #MindTheStore
Facebook: Facebook.com/SaferChemicals