Environmental

The plastic shopping bag that is so common at stores is becoming one of the most insidious environmental problems. That’s the case the world over. World consumers use a half a trillion new bags each year — or nearly one million per minute. Only 80 percent are recycled, leaving 200,000 a minute to infest our [...]

Wal-Mart Canada Corp. reported on June 21st that it will begin to use packaging as one of the reasons to choose what to sell. Potential suppliers will have to fill out a complex survey about the ecological impact and recycled content of their packaging. As one example, Wal-mart saved $3-million (U.S.) by shrinking the cardboard [...]