If Walmart were really green…
…it wouldn’t be so slow about eradicating plastic bags. In a post explaining Target’s new program on this front, Kathryn Robbins writes:
But where is the nation’s biggest retailer, Wal-Mart, on ditching plastic bags? They’re thinking about it. The company wants to “reduce our global plastic shopping bag waste by an average of 33 percent per store by 2013.” Last month a select number of stores in California were going to ban plastic bags via a new test program. Customers would have the option to bring their own reusable bags or buy low priced ones from Wal-Mart. The plan was cancelled.
So which comes first at Walmart: profits or the environment? Do I really need to ask?
The day Walmart stops using plastic baggies is the day I have to start buying little plastic trash bags for my small trash cans.
Honestly, I’m not surprised at all. For walmart, profits always come first. Even over human life.
Wouldn’t it increase Walmart’s profits to stop buying bags/sell them to customers?
[...] Jonathan and I have both written about the issue of Walmart ditching its free plastic bags. The strategy is fraught with challenges, but I applaud the retailer’s attempt. What I fear is a brief experiment with poor results and a throwing up of the hands to declare, we tried! [...]