Wal-Mart yesterday unveiled plans for a new website designed to allow cleantech companies to pitch their products and services to the retail giant.
Launched at the Cleantech forum in Toronto and run in conjunction with the Cleantech Group consultancy, the new web portal will be open to the public shortly and will invite cleantech providers to submit information about their company and products to Wal-Mart.
The company said the information would be assessed and aggregated by the The Cleantech Group and presented to Wal-Mart execs.
The initiative is the latest in a series of moves from the retail giant designed to bolster its green credentials and slash its huge carbon footprint.
Speaking at the conference, Rand Waddoups, senior director for corporate strategy and sustainability at the company said it had made good progress since announcing two years ago that it was committed to greening the organisation.
He said that the company was working closely with suppliers to help them reduce their energy costs and had delivered major CO2 and energy bill reductions through a range of in-store measures such as installing low-heat LED lighting in its freezers, increasing recycling of cardboard and plastic and even removing the light bulbs from employee coke machines.
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