Wal-Mart Expands Packaging Scorecard

Wal-Mart used this year’s PACK EXPO to announce that its Packaging Scorecard will be expanded internationally by 2010, and it will be easier for suppliers to monitor their progress through Wal-Mart reporting.

The Packaging Scorecard will debut in Brazil, Canada, Central America, China, India, Japan, Mexico and Puerto Rico in 2010. Wal-Mart will also be announcing changes to its metrics in April.

It was at the same PACK EXPO two years ago that Wal-Mart first announced the Packaging Scorecard, which grades different manufacturers on the “seven Rs of packaging”: Remove, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Renew, Revenue and Read. The goal of the program is to decrease packaging across Wal-Mart’s entire supply chain by five percent before 2013.

Currently 250,000 Wal-Mart products are affected by the scorecard, and Wal-Mart owned Sam’s Club reports 90 percent participation in the program, said co-manager of the Wal-Mart Sustainability Value Network Amy Zettlemoyer-Lazar.

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