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Wal-Mart boss says he will press suppliers in race to go green
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about 1 year ago about Wal-Mart
Wal-mart CEO, Lee Scott, took part in a lecture to top businesses in the UK yesterday in London. During his speech, he committed to reducing Wal-mart’s (the second biggest corporation in the world next to Exxon-Mobil) carbon footprint. Wal-mart will pressure its suppliers, customers and staff to go green as well. Wal-mart has made a commitment to move toward sustainability.
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This has a potentially huge impact on the environment, should the worlds second largest corporation follow through with this course of action. Two and a half cheers for Wal-mart.
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submitted by undergroundman about 1 year ago
Sounds good, but I’m waiting to see how it pans out.
Does green washing matter??
submitted by Ernesto about 1 year ago
Wal-Mart’s six path strategy focuses on its own environmental footprint and that of its 60,000 suppliers. The work with just one toy supplier to reduce packaging, meant it required 497 fewer containers to ship the same number of items, saving 3,800 trees, 1,000 barrels of oil and $2.4m a year in shipping costs. “That’s just one supplier, just one product line and just 255 items,” he said.
Suppliers are being asked to cut their packaging and produce start more sustainable practices, there are more than 60,000 suppliers!!! been educated at this moment.
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