Friends of the Earth Letter to Wal-Mart Executives

"Over the past decades, thousands of toxic or untested chemicals have been used in the products sold in major retail stories and have been placed in workers’ and communities’ environments during the production and disposal of products sold in these stores. We believe the time has come for major retailers to take serious action to address the dangers that these toxic chemicals pose to consumers, workers and communities around the globe.

Our organizations have therefore signed the attached “Principles for Safe, Healthy, Responsible and Toxic-Free Retail,” calling on Wal-Mart and other major retailers to act in a morally responsible way by phasing out toxic chemicals.

Specifically, we urge Wal-Mart to protect the health and safety of consumers and workers and communities here and abroad by minimizing and eventually eliminating toxic chemicals in the products sold in your stores and in the extraction, production, transport, and disposal of those products. We believe that removing toxics from consumer products and production processes cannot be effectively undertaken with a piecemeal approach, but rather must be done in a comprehensive manner and throughout the supply chain."

Click here to download the letter from Friends of the Earth.