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Home Depot – the nation's largest hardware
chain – doesn't offer their customers much of
a choice when it comes to animal and kid-friendly
lawn and garden care. The chain doesn't offer
enough natural alternatives to the toxic pesticides
it stocks on its shelves. And many of the chemical
lawn pesticides Home Depot offers are not only
toxic to birds, bees, fish and other wildlife, but
also harmful to children, pets and water quality.
Let Home Depot know that toxic pesticides aren't
the only choice for lawn and garden care. Take
action now…
How You Can Help:
As a member of the National Coalition for
Pesticide-Free Lawns, Defenders needs you to help
us pressure Home Depot to carry a full range of
alternatives to toxic pesticides. As the largest
supplier of lawn and garden products in the
country, Home Deport must do more to support
sustainable land practices that won't pollute our
environment, threaten our wildlife or harm our
families.
We need to urge Home Depot to do three
things:
1) Carry a full range of natural, non-toxic lawn
and garden products.
2) Train staff to be knowledgeable about non-toxic
alternatives.
3) Reconsider the sale of "weed and feed" – a
particularly toxic product.
Please download this letter, sign it, and
deliver it to the Customer Service desk at your
neighborhood Home Depot. We need to deliver as many
letters as soon as possible. If you don't know
where a Home Depot near you is located, go to
www.HomeDepot.com
and click on store locator. If you are able to
deliver your letter, please email pesticidefree@defenders.org
so we know how many letters have been
delivered.
Thanks for supporting natural and safe lawn
management products for yards across America!
Background:
In April 2005, the National Coalition for
Pesticide-Free Lawns publicly called on Home Depot
and Lowe's Home Improvement to start selling a full
range of natural, non-toxic lawn and garden
products. They also asked the companies to train
their staff to be knowledgeable about natural lawn
care, to provide do-it-yourself natural lawn
materials, to reconsider the sale of "weed and
feed," and to work with the Coalition to make it
all happen. By June 2005, the Coalition had heard
back from the companies. Both essentially said they
already carry natural lawn products and that
product mix per store depends on demand. Our
information tells us that neither company does any
market research to determine demand but instead
determines demand solely upon sales. Our
response?
We understand that the company stocks the
shelves depending on demand, but we also understand
that the demand level is artificially skewed. The
natural product(s) are completely eclipsed by the
vast amount of toxic products, and customers are
often referred to toxic products because staff do
not adequately understand or know how to explain
natural lawn and garden care.
Given the inaction of these companies, the
Coalition is asking customers to speak up for
natural lawn and garden care products and
information.
To learn more about the National Coalition for
Pesticide-Free Lawns, please click here www.defenders.org/wildlife/birds/pesticides.html
Defenders of Wildlife is a leading national
conservation organization recognized as one of the
nation's most progressive advocates for wildlife
and habitat and known for its effective leadership
on saving endangered species such as brown bears
and gray wolves. Defenders advocates new approaches
to wildlife conservation that protect species
before they become endangered. Founded in 1947,
Defenders is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization
with more than 475,000 members and supporters
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