“Greening” of Wal-Mart?

“Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, declined to work with Wal-Mart on environmental matters because the company wouldn’t agree also to talk about labor, healthcare and other issues”

Sierra Club Mission Statement (straight from their website)
1. Explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth.
2. Practice and promote the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems and resources.
3. Educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment.
4. Use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.

So the Sierra Club is now interested in employee wages and healthcare.  I’m so glad they have added those items to their charter.  Oops, they didn’t… unless you’re talking about Walmart.  What a joke Carl Pope is and he’s taking the stature of the Sierra Club and its supporters down with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

-Richard K

““None of this is ‘greenstanding,’” said Pope, who also serves on Wal-Mart Watch’s board.”

Now I get it.  Carl Pope is even more of a joke now.

-Richard K

If you are NOT concerned about wages and healthcare you must rich.

I am not rich and I am concerned about wages and healthcare so that pretty much blows a hole in that theory.  Now what again does the Sierra Club have to do with wages and healthcare or am I missing something?

-Richard K

I wonder if someone is “concerned about wages and healthcare” because they may not make as much as a stockholder?
One will never know.

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help me out with this one please anybody.  How does a government provide “affordable healthcare”?  I don’t understand when the government assumed that responsibility.  I want all people to do well too, as long as we have insurance who pay what doctors demand then we are removing the price information conveyed from the patients to the doctors.  Health insurance distorts that price.  The other aspect is this… Health insurance companies are in business to make a profit.  If it wasn’t profitable they wouldn’t do it? RIGHT? So basically when we subscribe to health insurance we are paying the insurance companies more than they are paying for our health care?  Right?  When we do away with insurance and “affordable healthcare” as mandated by a government then we will begin to see the price of healthcare reflect the demand of those services.  When the companies offer healthcare they are contributing to the distortion of that information.  It is amazing to me that people pressure employers to provide health care.

While Wal*Mart continues to proclaim how “Green” it is becoming, it has yet to address, the millions of tons of refuse it hauls away from its Supercenters a year.

Unless you are someone on the inside of the “box”, I guess you do not really know.

I still find it quite astounding how much these stores “compact” daily
into waste containers to be hauled away to god knows where?

Time was, Bud’s was a market for much of what Wal*Mart defines as “Claims”.
Bud’s was sort of the “yard sale” of Wal*Mart, and it absorbed much of that which is now routinely thrown away at stores.
Bud’s was at least some form of recycling.
There is no hard waste recycling present in Wal*Marts.

Fact is, unless you work inside a Wal*Mart, you will never know the extent of the immense waste-stream that exudes from any given Supercenter.
It is truly astounding.

At least 50% of all the objects you see in a Wal*Mart Supercenter, will at some point in time, represent themselves inside the local trash compactor.
The rest, sent to Wal*Mart “Return Centers“, well its junk too, so you make a guess on that disposition.
Even vendors routinely throw out unsold, non-perishable merchandise.

Everything but Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, goes to the landfills.

And folks, you would be TRULY AMAZED.

Wal*Mart “Green”? That is totally PR BS. Not worth the medium it is printed on unless its used toilet paper.

cazar i’m not sure because i have never been inside the box, but wouldn’t the same amount of waste be destributed by 100 stores that were each 1/100 of the size of wal-mart?

Sweep the exhausted water area advertisement, the wow takes the lead.game

Czar,
if you would keep up on the facts, you would see wal-mart is doing more then any of it’s competiton when it comes to dealing with the waste. Even the union stores don’t put in as much money to dealing with the waste..

“We believe that we should be able to conduct business in such a way that we generate no net waste. As a cost-conscious retailer we have always worked hard to reduce waste, although we once assumed a certain amount was an inevitable part of doing business. There are always creative alternatives.

We are moving toward our goal by recycling more materials, by refining our production and distribution systems so that we create less trash, and by selecting packaging that creates minimal waste.”

I know because I work as a hourly associate in one of their distribution centers and see this everyday. We get more and more cases of product/truck just from the decrease in packaging due to walmart pushing their vendors to better themselves..