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Walmart

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In addition to reducing operational food waste by 50% by 2030 against a 2016 baseline, Walmart has an ambitious goal to achieve zero waste to landfill and incineration in their operations in the U.S. by 2025.

Food Waste Reduction Strategies

  • Encouraging suppliers to report their food waste reductions and/or date-labeling initiatives through Project Gigaton, which reduced, avoided, or sequestered one billion metric tons of emissions six years prior to its targeted goal.

  • Encouraging suppliers to standardize date labeling as an aid to improve customer decision-making, an initiative that was part of the Consumer Goods Forum’s Date Labeling Call to Action.

  • Instituting standardized date labeling on their own private brand items. Walmart estimates that in FY2023, 96% of Walmart U.S. private-brand food supplier-reported sales came from items carrying “Best if Used By” or “Use By” standardized date labels.

  • Donating unsold food to people and places that need it while it remains nutritious. In FY2023, Walmart donated more than 665 million pounds of food in the U.S. alone through their partnership with Feeding America, a nationwide network of nearly 200 food banks in the U.S.