What People Are Saying
Sustainability
Walmart is becoming more environmentally friendly by selling organic products, minimizing waste and conserving energy. For example, some of our fresh food now comes wrapped in corn-based packaging. This initial change of more than 100 million produce containers will save 800,000 gallons of gasoline and prevent more than 11 million pounds of greenhouse gases from polluting our environment. We’re also selling and aggressively promoting high-efficiency light bulbs, which use two-thirds less ele
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"[The Walmart sustainable product index] sends the right signal to the marketplace and the right signal to the supply chain that sustainability is important… We hope it changes the game."
Michael Kobori, Vice President of Social and Environmental Sustainability, Levi Strauss & Co., Los Angeles Times
7/17/2009
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“The impact Walmart will have with the green initiative is profound… I am proud to be a part of this and to know that the overall results will, by example, show how this can be achieved.”
Norma Kamali, clothing designer, Women's Wear Daily
7/16/2009
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“[Walmart is] an international leader when it comes to green and sustainable business practices.”
Marty Dodge, Senior Vice President, Kalamazoo Regional Chamber of Commerce, Kalamazoo Gazette
6/7/2009
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“Walmart changed us…In addition to buying a fleet of new delivery trucks, we had to change the way we did business. No other client required bar codes or purchase order numbers. We bought new technology and it made us more efficient, not just for Walmart, but for other clients as well.”
Oliver Washington III, President, Shore Acres Nursery, MBNUSA
4/27/2009
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"I've never seen a company embrace sustainability more fully than Walmart. Thank you, Lee, for being crazy enough to do this…"
Elizabeth Spurcken, managing director, Environmental Defense Fund, Arkansas Democrat Gazette
1/27/2009
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