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Target, Walmart Push Sustainablity In Supply Chains

January 30, 2017

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Target is pressuring suppliers to disclose ingredients in much of what it sells, including cosmetics, textiles, and personal care and cleaning products, and for the first time it has established deadlines for the removal of some of the most toxic components. The company wants textile products to be free of perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) and flame retardants by 2022. Fragrances in cosmetics have proven to be a particularly difficult challenge in this effort, as companies maintain disclosure can compromise trade secrets, but according to Target they have worked out systems that will maintain confidentiality and still meet the goals of the program. Target and Walmart have been leaders in this type of sustainability initiative, and according to one advocacy group they are doing significantly better than either Costco or Amazon. Target, in 2013, began scoring products on the basis of a “sustainability index” that takes into account toxicity of component chemicals, and it uses these scores as a factor in its product selection.

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