BENTONVILLE, AR — The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., will promote green cleaning by encouraging suppliers not to use chemicals like nonyl phenol ethoxylates, according to a press release posted in PRNewswire.com.
Wal-Mart will establish "Preferred Chemical Principles" to let suppliers know which chemicals the company does not want to sell anymore, and to encourage alternative formulations, the release noted.
This week, Wal-Mart announced the first three such chemicals — two pesticides and nonyl phenol ethoxylates — and said that it will be adding 17 more chemicals to the list in the next two years, the release stated.
In the release, a Wal-Mart executive said, "We anticipate that our efforts will encourage our suppliers and their suppliers to innovate new product formulations that will be better for our customers and for the environment."
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