Walmart will be reducing their plastic waste, the company announced at their supplier growth forum. In their most recent press release the corporation outlined a set of commitments to be more environmentally friendly.

• Seek to achieve 100 percent recyclable, reusable or industrially compostable packaging
for its private brand packaging by 2025;
• Target at least 20 percent post-consumer recycled content in private brand packaging by
2025
• Label 100 percent of food and consumable private brand packaging with the
How2Recycle® label by 2022
• Work with suppliers to eliminate the non-recyclable packaging material PVC in general
merchandise packaging by 2020
• Reduce private brand plastic packaging when possible, optimizing the use to meet the
need.

Walmart has already implemented some of these changes. In 2017 the company diverted over 80 percent of their unsold products from ending up in landfills.