Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott (picture) states in the company’s CSR “We have found that there is no conflict between our business model of everyday low costs and everyday low prices and being a more sustainable business.” And we were surprised when Rupert Murdoch said NewsCorp was going to blaze new paths in how mass media can fight climate change!
With more than 68,000 supplier partnerships, 1.5 million empowered associates, and the buying power of more than 100 million customers a week, Wal-Mart has the opportunity to make real strides in the area of sustainable consumerism that they see as a competitive advantage over their competitors, of course! And the company is getting down to business with a myriad of sustainable practices either in action or under development that include:
- Improved the efficiency of its transportationfleet by 15%
- Sold 100 million compact fluorescent light bulbs
- Recycling - previously mentioned by Lois
- Is designing a store that will use 30% less energy and produce 30% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than their 2005 design within the next 3 years
- Is working with suppliers to reduce packaging by 5% by 2013 - an effort equal to removing 213,000 trucks from the road.
- Developing common-sense ‘Green’ scorecards for customers that encourage making informed choices about environmentally preferable products.
- Offers a number of sustainable products from seafood to laptops.
It is good to see a company with so much sway in the consumer goods market taking positive and effective action to offer sustainable products, even if they are doing it to try and drive any remaining competitors out of business, what they learn along the way can help industry all over the world find sustainability solutions. Even with these innovations Wal-Mart’s CO2 emissions increased over-all last year due to company expansion, hopefully they will also strike a good balance between growth and sustainability
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