Campaign for Healthier Solutions
Take Action to Get Toxic Chemicals Out of Dollar Store Products
It's Here! The 2024 Campaign for Healthier Solutions National Week of Action for safer products in dollar stores (December 2-8) - happening NOW!
This week, campaign supporters in 30 states across the country are demanding that dollar store chains do more to protect their families and communities from toxic chemicals.
Join us in sending a national message to dollar store executives that our communities deserve safe products and healthy foods. You can add your voice by:
- Sending an email to dollar store company leaders through this action page; and
- Visiting a dollar store near you to deliver the campaign's letter to the store manager.
The largest dollar store chains - Dollar General and Dollar Tree/Family Dollar - make billions in profits every year, but continue to sell products that contain known toxic chemicals. And they are falling farther and farther behind their competitors like Walmart on product safety.
In 2024, all of the nation’s largest dollar stores failed to meaningfully strengthen their chemical policies and intervene in their supply chains to keep their shoppers safe from substances linked to learning disabilities, cancer and reproductive harm. Dollar Tree knowingly kept lead-contaminated apple sauce on its shelves, putting children in harm's way. Dollar General failed to expand its list of restricted substances, which does not include PFAS, most phthalates, and many other chemicals known to cause harm. Dollar stores can and must do better.
In this year's Retailer Report Card produced by Toxic Free Future, Dollar General received a grade of only D+, and Dollar Tree/Family Dollar received only a D. (Para ver las calificaciones de las tiendas de dólar en español, haga clic aquí: Dollar General y Dollar Tree.)
What: This holiday season, we are asking members of our networks to visit their local dollar stores across the country to send a clear message up the chain: families deserve to know that dollar store products are safe. We’re calling on dollar stores to make a New Year’s resolution to strengthen their chemical policy in 2025 and disclose their full chemical footprint.
During the week of action, CHS supporters are organizing protests and hand-delivering letters to store management in 30 states and the District of Columbia: Alaska, Alabama, California, Colorado, Washington DC, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Missouri, North Carolina, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia
Who: The Campaign for Healthier Solutions, a project of Coming Clean and the Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform, is working to get toxic products out of dollar stores. Community organizations lead the campaign, joined by many allies.
Where: You can join the dollar store week of action from anywhere! CHS will be supplying an action toolkit with a sample letter you can deliver to the manager of your local dollar store (Dollar Tree/Family Dollar, and Dollar General.).
Why: We know from previous actions that showing up to dollar stores and engaging management is an effective way to send messages up the chain to corporate leadership.
We hope you’ll join us in taking action THIS week - December 2-8, 2024.
- Sign up here to visit a dollar store near you. You'll receive background and action materials.
- Click here to email dollar store executives.