And from Canada, this announcement from the entire retail
industry, reported yesterday on the
Zero Waste Vancouver
blog.
H.
At 01:04 PM 9/26/2008, Stephan Pollard wrote:
Folks,
Thought you might be interested in some positive news just out from the
little mom-and-pop retail outfit headquarter'd just up the road from
me!
Stephan
From WasteNews.com Sept. 26, 2008.
Wal-Mart to reduce plastic bag waste by
33% per store
Sept. 26 -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has committed to reducing its shopping
plastic bag waste by an average of 33% per store by 2013.
It will eliminate more than 135 million pounds of plastic waste globally
through the initiative by reducing the number of bags given out by its
stores, encouraging the use of reusable shopping bags and give customers
the opportunity to recycling plastic shopping bags.
The retailer should be able to eliminate the equivalent of nine billion
plastic bags per year from its existing stores alone, said Matt Kistler,
senior vice president for sustainability for Wal-Mart. It is developing
it plastic bag reduction strategy in partnership with the Environmental
Defense Fund.
"If we can encourage consumers to change their behavior, just one
bag at a time, we believe real progress can be made toward our goal of
creating zero waste."
--
Stephan Pollard, Ph.D.-Environmental Dynamics
Throttle6wind Energy Development
a division of Trem | Wel Energy, LLC
555 W. Maple St., Suite C
Fayetteville, AR 72701
(479) 799-9190
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