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The Wal-Mart Green Machine, Setting an Example

The Wal-Mart Green Machine, Setting An Example

Wal-Mart’s CEO, Lee Scott, wants to turn the world's  biggest retailer into the world's greenest retailer, with hopes that other companies will follow. The company is so big and so powerful that this task seems like a no-brainer.

Some of Wal-Mart’s goals include:

  • Increase the efficiency of its vehicle fleet by 25% over the next three years, and double their efficiency in 10 years, 
  • Eliminate 30% of the energy used in stores,
  • Reduce solid waste from U.S. stores by 25% in three years,
  • Invest $500 million in sustainability projects 

So far, Wal-Mart has become the biggest seller of organic milk and the biggest buyer of organic cotton in the world. Many other companies are following in Wal-Mart’s footsteps. 

 

 

Source:The Green Machine, by Marc Gunther, Fortune Magazine, 7 August 2006,  Pgs 42-57.

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