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Walmart has made significant steps to make themselves, and their operations in China specifically, more environmentally-sustainable:

Acknowledging that Walmart customers “need low prices,” he said he also believed that “more and more, they will be looking at the entire life cycle of a product: How is it made, how is it sold, how is it used, and how is it reused? To meet these customer expectations, we need to ask ourselves: Is a product made in a factory that is a responsible steward of the environment and our natural resources?”

Interesting report by Orville Schell for The Atlantic. His point that Walmart and the Chinese Communist Party are made of similar, if not the same, cloth is a bit vapid, but it’s worth reading for discussion about how Walmart is exerting pressure on its manufacturers in China to become more environmentally-friendly.