The 312-store chain has a new online feedback form asking customers to report packaging they feel is wasteful, excessive or uses inappropriate or unrecyclable materials.
Walmart Canada will pass along the feedback directly to product suppliers and manufacturers. The company estimates that only 8 percent of its environmental impacts are directly tied to its own operations, and the remaining 92 percent is related to products and packaging.
"No matter what the issue, the best truth-test for any retailer or product supplier is customer feedback," said David Cheesewright, Walmart Canada's CEO and president. "We have set ambitious sustainability goals for our company, we have established new standards with our suppliers, but our customers will ultimately determine how far is far enough."
The company is also introducing a packaging scorecard like the one being used by Walmart's U.S. operations to assess packaging and weed out wasteful practices.
A similar packaging feedback program was recently launched by Amazon, which also asks how well packaging protects products, if it's the right size and if it was made with appropriate materials.
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Walmart is green when they don't have to pay.
Walmart is first to the plate, as long as the cost go to the suppliers.
Loblaws however is really doing something by taking the chance of reducing plastic waste, with a pay per bag policy.
How is really doing more?