Walmart Urging Suppliers to Join Greenhouse Gas Reducing Project

Walmart has launched a sustainability platform aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and is calling on its supply chain to join the initiative.  Dubbed Project Gigaton, the initiative will provide an emissions reduction toolkit to a broad network of suppliers seeking to eliminate one gigaton of emissions, focusing on areas such as manufacturing, materials and use of products by 2030.

The company estimated achieving the goal would be equivalent to taking more than 211 million passenger vehicles off U.S. roads and highways for a year.  Meat industry publication Meatingpalce reports the company has identified energy, agriculture, waste, packaging, deforestation and product use and design as the goal areas in which to focus part of the plans climate efforts.

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