• products manufactured or stored in, or transported through, • Restrictive regulatory response process California solely for use outside of California Robert Dyer, Walmart Stores, presented Walmart Sustainability. Within 60 days after the product is listed as a Priority Product each Walmart’s broad sustainability goals are to be supplied 100% by responsible entity for a product listed on the Priority Products list renewable energy, to create zero waste and must provide to DTSC: to sell products that sustain people and the environment. • Priority Product Notification In 2011, the retailer utilized 1.1 billion • Alternatives Analysis Threshold Exemption Notification kWh of renewable energy, reduced waste • Priority Product Removal Notification, or by 80% and integrated its Sustainability • COC Removal Notification Index. It is working toward 100% renewable energy and just celebrated If you don’t comply, the DTSC will: its 100th project in January 2012, with • issue a notice of non-compliance to the manufacturer and savings to date of $2.1 million. importers The Fuel Cell Pilot Project has 26 • place the product on Failure to Comply List California locations and supplies • conduct audits 40%–60% of the stores’ electricity needs. Dyer • initiate enforcement actions including fines and penalties Expansion is planned to New York, Connecticut and Florida; Walmart is working with the Florida Emergency Management Center to identify potential sites that could keep stores online Beginning two years after the regulations become effective, those following disasters to serve the community. completing AAs must be certified as an assessor by a DTSC- Electricity represents the second-highest operating expense at the designated accreditation body. majority of Walmart stores and clubs, but the installation of LED freezer case lighting at a store in McKinney, TX, reduced energy Potential problems: consumption by 70%. Now LED freezer case lighting has become • Lack of clear and consistent criteria for COC list the industry standard and has been adapted to additional areas of • Lack of reasonable criteria for selecting Priority Products buildings, including parking lot lights and sales floor lighting. • Inadequate definition for categorizing Priority Products Refrigeration cases and walk-in coolers account for about 11% of • Difficult to demonstrate COC is below the “AA threshold Walmart greenhouse gas emissions and are a bigger contributor to exemption” level its carbon footprint than its truck fleet. In 2011, it incorporated the • AA timeframes are not workable secondary loop refrigeration system to increase efficiency, prevent • Inadequate protections of confidential business information leakage and cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 95%. (CBI), particularly in the AA process In 2011, it used 12,677 tons of fly ash—a byproduct of coal-fired November 2012 SPRAY 43
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