Tag Archives: zero waste
Celebrate Earth Month with The Green Room
This month is Earth Month, a celebration of the environment and sustainability that culminates with Earth Day on April 22. It’s a great time to focus on the importance of sustainability and how we can make it part of our daily lives. And since that’s also the goal of The Green Room, we wanted to give a sneak preview of how Walmart is celebrating Earth Month.
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Follow the leaders on The Leaderboard
A few months ago, we announced a new advertising partnership with Mother Nature Network that would create a special editorial channel on the site for readers to explore the people, businesses and organizations leading in sustainability.
Now we’re pleased to announce the official launch of that channel, “The Leaderboard”.
Read more ›The numbers behind zero waste
Today is America Recycles Day and there are simple steps all of us can take to reduce waste – and cut costs. At Walmart, one of our three big sustainability goals is to create zero waste and last year we worked towards this goal by recycling, donating food, and reusing organic material. As a result, we reduced the amount we send to landfill in the U.S. by 80 percent! For more on how we did it check out our infographic.
Today is America Recycles Day and there are simple steps all of us can take to reduce waste – and cut costs. At Walmart, one of our three big sustainability goals is to create zero waste and last year we worked towards this goal by recycling, donating food, and reusing organic material. As a result, we reduced the amount we send to landfill in the U.S.
Read more ›Set big sustainability goals, then work at them daily
Walmart’s company-wide goal is to create zero waste. Corrugated cardboard is bundled into bales and sent to paper mills to be recycled into new paper products.Last year, Walmart U.S. kept nearly 81 percent of waste out of the landfill.
As someone who leads the drive toward sustainability every single day at work, I’ve been thinking a lot about our commitment as we wrap up Earth Month 2012.
