Yes, a lot has been said about the retail superstore, but some personal experience always helps in the journalistic mix.
I had my oil changed at Walmart last week. At the same time, my daughter decided to purchase an outfit. (both of Chinese polyester–I am cringing, waiting for eco-friends to hit me with a US grown tomato) (Honest, she couldn’t find anything any place else!) Given that I’ve not been smacked yet, I will continue.
I always ask for the hangers because Walmart has, in the past always thrown them out. I reuse them for years.
The cashier would not allow me to take it! Why? BECAUSE, he said, “Walmart recycles them. In fact, we recycle EVERYthing now.”
Imagine that! Walmart? Green?
Much to my pleasant amazement and surprise, I also found out that oil cans are recycled as well as cardboard. Upon leaving the store, I actually SAW bales upon bales of cardboard behind the store, ready for pickup!
Hurray to Wally World! Now, let’s get some USA made products back in the store!
via: personal experience
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Doesn’t surprise me. I read in Fast Company last fall that Wal-Mart has vowed to sell each of its 100 million customers an ice-cream-cone-shaped CFL bulb, in order to change energy consumption in the US, figuring that “if every one of 110 million American households bought just one ice-cream-cone bulb, took it home, and screwed it in the place of an ordinary 60-watt bulb, the energy saved would be enough to power a city of 1.5 million people.”
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/108/open_lightbulbs.html