Walmart Vs. Motorola

Wal-Mart vs. Motorola

Karen Parr

Johnathan Mewborn

Aarohi Patel

Loretta Moody

Michelle Poliseno

May 25, 2006

Table of Contents

Introduction………………………………………..………………………………………3

Protecting the Land …………………………………..…………………………………...3

Conserving Energy………………………………………………………………………...6

Managing Waste…………………………………………………………………………13

Recycling………………………………………………………………………………...15

References…………………………………………………………..……………………17

Wal-Mart vs. Motorola

When it comes to Wal-Mart, there are many responsible environmental policies. In the Wal-Mart policy, it covers energy, products and waste. Wal-Mart's goal is to conserve energy and resources required to operate a store, reduce raw materials needed for construction and renew materials used throughout the facility. Leaders and executives from every branch formed entrepreneurial teams focusing on areas like packaging, real estate, energy, raw material and electronics waste.

Motorola has a lot more environmental policies than Wal-Mart does. In the Motorola policy, they cover waste, emissions, energy and products. They have also received many awards for their environmental programs. In 1992, Motorola was the second electronics firm in the world to eliminate the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) from their manufacturing processes. Their business goal is zero EHS-related fines and continuous improvement in the number of citations over previous years.

Wal-Mart and Motorola have many of the same environmental policies. However, Motorola has many more and is more actively into sticking with them. Motorola has less environmental problems than Wal-Mart does and has the awards to back them up. We will support our conclusions and recommendations with the information from each of the two companies. We will compare and contrast the pros and cons to determine our final decision on who has the most responsible environmental policy.

Protecting the Land

Wal-Mart and Motorola both have environmental policies committed to land conservation and preservation. Wal-Mart has over 4,000 stores worldwide that occupy a lot of land. Unfortunately, when you develop land by building structures, you disrupt soil, loose biodiversity, and create water runoff problems. Wal-Mart has committed to helping this environmental issue by developing some common-sense plans for selecting sites. They also use construction materials that have minimal effects on the land.

Wal-Mart has agreed to "conserve at least one parcel of priority wildlife habitat for every parcel developed over the next 10 years" (Wal-Mart). This will help reduce the effects of construction as well as protecting future developments. Wal-Mart's