Walmart: Green Supply Chain
Greening Walmart's Supply Chain
Given its size and footprint, Walmart can effect huge environmental change. The firm is focusing on global warming, seafood, packaging and toxic materials.
We're working with Walmart to measurably reduce its environmental impacts. Specifically, we are:
- informing and influencing sustainability goals and
- motivating change in the company, its supply chain and its customers.
Areas of focus
Global Warming - Working to stop or reverse the growth curve for heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions
Seafood - Improving operating conditions at fish farms, especially shrimp and salmon farms
Packaging - Creating tracking metrics for understanding and communicating the overall solid waste, greenhouse gas and environmental health impacts of packaging changes
Toxic Materials - Creating a system that will allow Walmart to assess and reduce the toxic components in products while fostering continuous improvement and product innovation
China - Improving environmental performance at the 30,000 Chinese factories that supply Walmart and building a purchasing system that rewards suppliers with environmentally preferable products
Press Releases
Cutting-edge Environmental Innovations Recognized by Environmental Defense Fund
04/21/2009
Environmental Defense Fund Partners with Wal-Mart to Cut Global Shopping Bag Waste
09/25/2008
Statement of Environmental Defense on the environmental aspects of Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Report
11/15/2007
Environmental Defense Will Add Staff Position in Bentonville, Arkansas
07/12/2006
