Posts tagged ‘Wal-mart’
Partnering for packaging success
Sam’s Club worked with Cheerios to change its packaging from one large box with two bags to two smaller boxes with one bag each, allowing for a 4 percent reduction in materials. These and other efforts are the focus of the Walmart and Sam’s Club Sustainable Packaging Exposition taking place tomorrow in Rogers, Ark. Continue reading
May 7, 2012 Ron Sasine 1 comment
In trucking, the road to efficiency is continuous
Walmart is continuously working to improve its trucking fleet through technologies like this hybrid assist truck. Since 2007, the Walmart fleet has delivered 361 million more cases while driving 287 million fewer miles.
Delivering more while driving less: It’s a simple idea, but bringing it to life can be a bit complicated. Continue reading
May 3, 2012 Elizabeth Fretheim Leave a comment
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. Continue reading
April 30, 2012 Andrea Thomas 1 comment
Urban habitats have new life through Acres for America
An egret stands on a branch in the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C.
Before Chicago was Chicago, birds, fish and wildlife knew it was a great place to call home.
The same can be said about many major American cities, where, interspersed among big buildings and busy streets, are some of the nation’s most important lands and natural resources.
April 27, 2012 Walmart Green Room Leave a comment
In the news this week: sustainability at Walmart
We’d like to think sustainability is always a popular topic, but Earth Month definitely puts it in the spotlight. You can read more about our successes and struggles with sustainability in this story by Triple Pundit. Walmart’s size and scale is both an advantage and a disadvantage, and writer Bill Roth described the process this way in an interview with our Andrea Thomas, SVP of Sustainability: “What this means is that a lot of work goes into turning an aircraft carrier.”
Mother Nature Network also wrote this week about the progress we are making toward some of those goals, including Walmart’s 80 percent reduction in waste in 2011. But we know we can and must do more.
We are constantly working on solutions. We discussed some of them Wednesday during our Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting, which you can view as a webcast replay here.
April 21, 2012 Walmart Green Room Leave a comment
An unwavering commitment to sustainability
Sustainability – protecting and investing in the environment – is a big part of who we are. This week, that commitment was celebrated and reaffirmed at our Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting. As CEO Mike Duke says in this video from the gathering, “We have not wavered – and we will not waver – on sustainability.”
You can view a webcast replay of our Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting here.
April 19, 2012 Walmart Green Room Leave a comment
Buying and Selling Merchandise
My job is to make sure Walmart has the right merchandise on its shelves at the right price. Increasingly, that means factoring the sustainability of a product into our decision-making.
Yesterday, I was at Fortune Brainstorm Green in California to talk about how we’re using the Sustainability Index to crank up the sustainability of our products. Continue reading
April 18, 2012 Duncan Mac Naughton Leave a comment
Just how far along is Walmart on its sustainability journey?
Today, we release our 2012 Global Responsibility Report, Walmart’s annual update on global sustainability and social responsibility.
The report documents our progress on everything from energy, waste and water to disaster relief, diversity and giving. It also covers two initiatives we launched in 2011: healthier, affordable food and women’s global economic empowerment. Continue reading
April 16, 2012 Andrea Thomas 1 comment
University of Virginia students win $20,000 to invest in green business plan
From right, University of Virginia students Lydia Abebe, Layton Hill, Molly Tyeryar and Caroline Hackett present their plan for an inexpensive, point-of-use water filter during the Better Living Business Plan Challenge finals Friday at Walmart headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.
To succeed with sustainability, new ideas are always needed. Continue reading
April 13, 2012 Walmart Green Room 1 comment
Building a renewable energy strategy, one block at a time
Marty Gilbert walks along an installation of ground-based solar panels.
When I’m not working, I enjoy spending time with my family. The schedule at our house revolves around our two boys – Jake, 14, and Harrison, 10. In the last three years, as I’ve gotten more deeply involved in helping Walmart find ways to use renewable energy, I’ve been more aware of how what I do at work can help contribute to a better world for Jake and Harrison for years to come. Continue reading
April 13, 2012 Marty Gilbert 1 comment
