In response to Walmart’s release of its

Global Responsibility Report, Food & Water Watch and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) have published the Top 10 Ways Walmart Fails on Sustainability.
Since 2005, the country’s largest retailer has been making splashy
announcements and issuing slick reports to highlight its environmental
and social responsibility efforts. Food & Water Watch and ILSR
contend that Walmart fails to live up to its promises and continues to
ignore the fundamental problems with its business model that harm the
environment, undermine healthy food choices, and exacerbate poverty.

“No amount of greenwash can conceal the fact that Walmart perpetuates
an industrialized food system that diminishes our natural resources,
causes excessive pollution, and forces smaller farmers and companies to
get big or get out of business,” said Wenonah Hauter, executive director
of Food & Water Watch.

“Once again, Walmart is using sustainability as a marketing tool to
improve its public image and propel its growth — even as it continues
to pave over critical habitat, increase its greenhouse gas emissions,
and flood the market with shoddy products that go from factory to
landfill in record time,” said Stacy Mitchell, senior researcher at
ILSR.

Top 10 Ways Walmart Fails on Sustainability is based on ILSR’s report “Walmart’s
Greenwash: How the company’s much-publicized sustainability campaign falls short, while its relentless growth devestates the environment” and Food & Water Watch’s report Why Walmart Can’t Fix the Food System.

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