Don Carli

Sustainability is getting a lot of well-deserved attention these days. Sporadic activities many months ago have turned into a fairly steady stream of announcements. As the samples below indicate, some are big and some are small, but they all indicate a renewed interest in the environment. • Wal-Mart recently released initial results of its Packaging Scorecard, which evaluates the company’s suppliers on the sustainability of their packaging, is part of Wal-Mart’s initiatives to achieve a five percent reduction in packaging by 2013. In its first month, the company reported that 2,268 vendors had logged on to its site and 117 products had been entered into