Wal-Mart cares
Barely a week after environmentalists forged a broad alliance with organized labor and community groups to attack Wal-Mart and its business practices, the company announced Tuesday that it would donate $35 million over the next decade to an ambitious new conservation effort by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
“Last year, we recycled over 2.8 million tons of cardboard, 9,416 tons of plastic and 49 million disposable cameras,” Sarah Clark, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart said.
The program created by Wal-Mart and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, called Acres for America, intends to acquire 138,000 acres eventually using Wal-Mart’s gift, as much land as the company projects that its American stores, parking lots and supply centers will occupy in 10 years.
“It helps demonstrate that economic growth and development can go hand in hand with conservation,” said Clark.
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