At the Wal-Mart Live Better Sustainability Summit, a gathering of more than 2,000 of its suppliers this week in Arkansas, Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott proclaimed the benefits the company has reaped from its focus on sustainability, and reiterated its long-term commitment to reducing its energy use, resource use and greenhouse gas emissions across not only its own operations, but its suppliers' operations as well.
One of the many announcements that came out of the Summit, was a new, reusable shopping bag that will make their first appearances at West Coast Wal-Marts this week. The black bags, which carry the slogan "Paper or Plastic? Neither", are made of 85 percent recycled products and are designed to carry as much as two to three of the company's disposable plastic bags. An advantage of this initiative is that when the bags reach the end of their usable life, the customers can bring them back to Wal-Mart for recycling.
The summit also featured a "Live Better Sustainability Resource Fair," where more than 40 retailers, manufacturers, nonprofits and government groups shared insights on how companies can help green their supply chains.
Although Wal-Mart has unveiled a series of environmental initiatives in recent months, including a goal to sell 100M compact fluorescent lightbulbs, a five-year plan to reduce packaging, … Lee Scott said that this was only the beginning for his company: "We have simply started this process, we lay no claims to being a green company."
Nils De Groote
Source : Greenbiz.com
Source : Greenbiz.com
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it's a good initiative that a supermarket like wal-mart introduces the 'recycle' bag.
If we want to help the environment we have to begin with little changements. In long term I think we will see a big improvement.
I think the black bags, which carry the slogan “ Paper or Plastic? Neither” will make other, smaller companies to see that they also have to put their little piece to ‘the big economic and non-polluting world industry puzzle’. This is a small step, but it’s a good step.
Oliver Neyt
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