Wal-Mart to Use Preferred Substances in Chemical Intensive Products

Thank you to GreenBiz.com for this article about Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is going to identify a number of chemicals that they do not want included in products they sell at their stores. They will be implementing this with a 3-step process:

"1) Awareness - where participating suppliers will be given a period to identify for Wal-Mart any of their products that currently use one of the priority chemicals as ingredients, (2) Development of an Action Plan - where suppliers communicate to Wal-Mart their plans regarding the Priority Chemicals in their products, and (3) Recognition and Reward - where Wal-Mart acknowledges the suppliers who participate in this effort."