http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/04/20/wal-mart-wants-to-eliminate-all-packaging-waste-by-2025/ Environmental Leader Fri, 25 May 2012 22:05:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/04/20/wal-mart-wants-to-eliminate-all-packaging-waste-by-2025/comment-page-1/#comment-406910 ex walmart shopper Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:04:46 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=13620#comment-406910 Agreed with exwalmartworker's comment: where and how can various producers or manufactures be responsible for products THEY MAKE and walmart LOOSES money on, even though items are a) still useable b) are tossed out at cost to both the manufacturer and the "retailer" and c) minutely defective products are made from $$ materials that can be separated and recycled for cash. when speaking with various walmart employees about cartons/boxes, dead plants, collected trash inside and outside the store, no one had any clue about waste diversion and assumed it all goes to landfill. bottom line: if the workers are not carrrying out a plan, the walmart does not have a plan to reduce the millions of tons of waste creating health hazards even before products reach the shelves. p.s. the data in the article above are bogus and improperly credited. thank you for reading. Agreed with exwalmartworker’s comment: where and how can various producers or manufactures be responsible for products THEY MAKE and walmart LOOSES money on, even though items are a) still useable b) are tossed out at cost to both the manufacturer and the “retailer” and c) minutely defective products are made from $$ materials that can be separated and recycled for cash. when speaking with various walmart employees about cartons/boxes, dead plants, collected trash inside and outside the store, no one had any clue about waste diversion and assumed it all goes to landfill. bottom line: if the workers are not carrrying out a plan, the walmart does not have a plan to reduce the millions of tons of waste creating health hazards even before products reach the shelves. p.s. the data in the article above are bogus and improperly credited. thank you for reading.

]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/04/20/wal-mart-wants-to-eliminate-all-packaging-waste-by-2025/comment-page-1/#comment-179041 exwalmartworker Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:25:01 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=13620#comment-179041 ok good and all but what about the waste walmart produces. what does walmart actually do with returns that people did not want or items that are good exept for 1. example 12pack of 591 water. 1 bottle missing. they told me to throw the entire thing in the trash compactor. 2. example outdoor recliner chair- missing a bolt, yup take it to claims so i did and guess what they said, they said throw that in the trash compactor. walmart makes one think they are reducing waste but they generate more than ever needed. now i work at a hazardous waste management place and we get waste from all sorts of walmarts. things like hair sprays without caps, CO2 canasters just because 1 is defective. WALMART is throwing away more good stuff then we realize and all for one reason. if they throw it away they claim it as bad and insurance pays it out. how is this right????? ok good and all but what about the waste walmart produces. what does walmart actually do with returns that people did not want or items that are good exept for 1. example 12pack of 591 water. 1 bottle missing. they told me to throw the entire thing in the trash compactor.
2. example outdoor recliner chair- missing a bolt, yup take it to claims so i did and guess what they said, they said throw that in the trash compactor. walmart makes one think they are reducing waste but they generate more than ever needed. now i work at a hazardous waste management place and we get waste from all sorts of walmarts. things like hair sprays without caps, CO2 canasters just because 1 is defective. WALMART is throwing away more good stuff then we realize and all for one reason. if they throw it away they claim it as bad and insurance pays it out. how is this right?????

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