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Retailers Offer Green Gift Cards

December 26, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Whole Foods and Starbucks are among the retailers offering more sustainable gift cards — an alternative to the plastic gift cards sold en masse over the holiday season, Los Angles Times reports. In 2012, the industry produced 33 billion cards, according to the International Card Manufacturers Association. The newspaper says ... Read more »

Study Finds Hazardous Chemicals in Holiday Garlands

December 9, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Beaded holiday garlands from CVS, Walgreens, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Target and Walmart contain hazardous chemicals, according to research by the Ecology Center. The Ann Arbor-based nonprofit tested 106 beaded products, including 19 beaded holiday garlands from the six national retailers as well as 87 previously used Mardi Gras beads from ... Read more »

Staples, HP, Marriott Staff Back Chemical Assessment Principles

October 21, 2013October 21, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Staples, Hewlett-Packard, Marriott, Timberland, Method and Seventh Generation are among the companies whose senior environmental staff have signed onto the Commons Principles for Alternatives Assessment, a framework developed by the Environmental Defense Fund, BizNGO, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute. Staples senior scientist and vice president Roger ... Read more »

Supermarket Chains Fail HFCs Survey

October 17, 2013October 14, 2014 by Kirsten Korosec

Major supermarkets chains in the US including Walmart and Whole Foods continue to use hydrofluorocarbons, gaseous compounds used in refrigerants and a major source of greenhouse gas emissions more powerful than carbon dioxide, according to a survey by the Environmental Investigation Agency. The report, The Dirty Dozen: How your local ... Read more »

Target, GoodGuide Launch Sustainable Product Standard

October 10, 2013October 10, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Target has teamed up with Underwriters Laboratories’s product-rating website GoodGuide to rate the environmental impact and sustainability of thousands of products. The retailer says it will use the Target Sustainable Product Standard to make merchandising and product-placement decisions. Beginning this month it will ask vendors representing 7,500 products in household ... Read more »

SAC, Outdoor Industry Association Launch Chemical Management Tool

October 2, 2013October 2, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Chemicals Management Working Group (CMWG) has developed a tool to help chemical suppliers and purchasers identify and choose ingredients that meet quality expectations while minimizing impacts on humans and the environment. The Chemicals Management Module (CMM), also called the Chemicals Management Framework, allows businesses to assess chemical management practices ... Read more »

Schneider Electric to Develop Web-Based Higg Index

September 26, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has selected Schneider Electric to develop a web-based version of the SAC’s sustainability assessment tool, the Higg Index 2.0, for the apparel and footwear industries. The web-based tool, which will use Schneider Electric’s sustainability and energy management software platform, StruxureWare Resource Advisor, will improve these ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance: Prop. 65, Ikea, Target, MSC, Laundry Standard

September 17, 2013September 17, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

The California Legislature has passed AB 227, which would give business owners receiving a notice of Proposition 65 violation a two-week grace period, during which they could avoid a lawsuit by posting the required warning signs and paying a $500 fine. The bill now heads to governor Jerry Brown, who has 30 days to ... Read more »

VW, Siemens, SAP Top Dow Jones Sustainability Indices

September 12, 2013September 12, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Volkswagen, Siemens, Nestle, Air France, SAP, BG Group and Citigroup are among the most sustainable companies in their respective industry groups, according to one of the world’s leading sustainability indices. The 2013 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, released today by Swiss-based investment firm RobecoSAM and S&P Dow Jones Indices, tracks the ... Read more »

Major Retailers Sell Carcinogenic Shampoos, Lawsuit Claims

August 30, 2013September 3, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Nearly 100 shampoos and personal care products made by Colgate Palmolive, Colomer, Paul Mitchell and numerous other manufacturers allegedly contain a cancer-causing chemical, according to test results released by the Center for Environmental Health. The Oakland, Calif.-based group filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Walgreens, Lake Consumer Products, Vogue International and ... Read more »

Nike, UPS, Starbucks Shareholders Demand GHG Cuts, Sustainability Reporting

August 15, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Investors filed 110 shareholder resolutions this proxy season related to sustainability issues and climate change with 94 US companies, according to business nonprofit Ceres, which helped coordinate the shareholder filings. Among resolutions filed with major US manufacturers, consumer brands and service providers, many investors requested board oversight of corporate sustainability ... Read more »

Los Angeles Set to Ban Plastic Bags

June 20, 2013June 21, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Los Angeles is set to ban plastic grocery bags, making it the largest US city to prohibit single-use plastic bags at supermarkets, pharmacies, convenience stores and retail chains that sell food such as Target and Walmart. The Los Angeles City Council voted 11-1 on Tuesday to adopt the ban, giving ... Read more »

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