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Beauty of the Beast
Wal-Mart tightens safety standards for toxics in toys |
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14 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:55 AM on 14 May 2008 Wal-Mart, the world's largest toy retailer, has told its suite of suppliers that they must meet new safety standards for toxics in toys by later this year. Some 25 million toys were recalled by toy makers last year in the United States, many due to high lead levels. Wal-Mart's new standards apply to a range of toxics, including antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, and mercur ... |
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| Topics: business, news, toxics, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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Sears of Joy
Sears and KMart will phase out PVC, Wal-Mart accused of eco-naughtiness |
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13 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 1:36 PM on 13 Dec 2007 Big-box behemoths Sears and Kmart have agreed to phase out nasty plastic PVC from all products in their 3,800 stores. While admirable, the announcement merely makes those stores the lemmings of PVC abandonment; IKEA, Wal-Mart, and Target have all previously agreed to go PVC-free. In other big-box news, the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency has accused Wal-Mart of sour ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, greening biz operations, greenish companies, logging, news, shopping, toxics, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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