Wal-Mart Supporting The Sustainable

Associated Press: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Friday announced a five-year program with its suppliers to help reduce overall packaging by five per cent, hoping to keep trash out of landfills and global-warming gases out of the atmosphere. In the latest step to polish its environmental record, the world's largest retailer said it will begin the initiative in 2008, and it could help Wal-Mart save $3.4 billion (all figures U.S.) in its own costs. In the five-year plan, Wal-Mart will push its 600,000 global ...Link