Over the past few years, The Home Depot has led the industry in creating chemical standards for multiple product categories including carpet, paint, insulation, flooring, live goods and cleaning products. To build upon our strategy to maintain continual improvement in health and environmental safety for products, we have added many alternative chemical paint removers, and will phase out of paint removal products that contain methylene chloride and N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP) by the end of 2018.