The number of Kohl’s-operated wind turbine sites increased from zero in 2010 to two in 2011.

In 2011, 100 remodeled Kohl’s stores installed LED spot lights. These lights have a longer lamp life than the lights they replaced. Each of the new LED lights will save about 46 percent of the energy used by traditional spot lighting solutions, the report says.

By 2015 Kohl’s has a goal of recycling 85 percent of all its waste material. In 2011 it recycled 78 percent its waste material, totaling 149,216 tons in 2011. The report does not detail figures from earlier years. The three categories of waste the company recycled most of were corrugated cardboard, construction debris and mixed plastic and hangers. Kohl’s has to date recycled 15 million hangers through an in-store recycling program.

In 2011, Kohl’s specific supply chain sustainability goals were to carry out a sustainability survey of its top 300 vendors, ranking them in terms of sustainability, and improving their average scores over the course of the year. Kohl’s succeeded in surveying all 300 vendors and by the fourth quarter the average vendor sustainability score had risen to 58 out of 100, up from 51 at that time in 2010 (see chart below).