Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, a Washington, D.C. based coalition, published its Retailer Report Card for this year on November 14. The report is produced by its Mind the Store program. Amazon ranked 14 out of 30 retailers with a score of 30.25 on a 135 point-scale. The scale considers 14 metrics including whether a retailer has a chemical safety policy, ensures supply chain accountability, requires suppliers to report the use of chemicals in products and demonstrates a commitment to transparency and public disclosure.
In 2016, the retail giant ranked last on the report card with a grade of 7.5 out of a 130 point-scale. Although Amazon has made improvements, it still has no safer chemicals policy, nor does it require suppliers to disclose chemicals in products.
Mike Schade, campaign director, Mind the Store, and co-author of the report, spoke to Bloomberg BNA, “Companies are seeing there’s a market advantage to demonstrating that they’re increasing the transparency of products and taking meaningful action to getting the worst of the worst chemicals out.” Amazon has said that it’s in the process of developing and evaluating a chemicals policy.
The 2017 Retailer Report Card can be found here.
Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, a Washington, D.C. based coalition, published its Retailer Report Card for this year on November 14. The report is produced by its Mind the Store program. Amazon ranked 14 out of 30 retailers with a score of 30.25 on a 135 point-scale. The scale considers 14 metrics including whether a retailer has a chemical safety policy, ensures supply chain accountability, requires suppliers to report the use of chemicals in products and demonstrates a commitment to transparency and public disclosure.
In 2016, the retail giant ranked last on the report card with a grade of 7.5 out of a 130 point-scale. Although Amazon has made improvements, it still has no safer chemicals policy, nor does it require suppliers to disclose chemicals in products.
Mike Schade, campaign director, Mind the Store, and co-author of the report, spoke to Bloomberg BNA, “Companies are seeing there’s a market advantage to demonstrating that they’re increasing the transparency of products and taking meaningful action to getting the worst of the worst chemicals out.” Amazon has said that it’s in the process of developing and evaluating a chemicals policy.
The 2017 Retailer Report Card can be found here.