Additional Packaging Sustainability Resources

	Sustainability Education ECRM's Sustainability Education program is the leading source of information about Wal-Mart's environmental initiatives and the company's Sustainable Packaging Scorecard. Topics covered by the program include: How to efficiently enter items into the Scorecard. Using single, multi and upload item entry tools. Finding potential packaging improvements. Discovering new raw material and converted packaging suppliers. Wal-Mart’s overall sustainability goals. Technical and sustainability aspects of packaging. Examples of packaging sustainability innovations. Classroom and/or webcast training is available in the US, Canada, China and Europe. Depending on location, training is available in English, French and Mandarin. Our partners in offering this program include Environmental Packaging International (EPI), The Packaging Association of Canada (PAC) and asociancion mexicana de envase y embalaje (amee).

	Efficient Collaborative Retail Marketing (ECRM)® ECRM® provides Business Solutions by integrating Process, Vision and TechnologyTM. Comprised of category & season specific Efficient Program Planning Sessions (EPPS)®, MarketGate software, ECRM® is helping retailers and manufacturers improve sales, reduce expense, and go to market faster and more efficiently. Additionally, ECRM® developed the software for Wal-Mart’s Sustainable Packaging Scorecard and Package Modeling. Our software development team creates custom business to business and business sustainability software for many of the world’s largest companies in addition to our MarketGate ™ Application Suite website and a host of systems in support of our EPPS® and other events.

	Greener Package Greener Package is an industry leading web initiative that recognizes outstanding packaging designs, includes a comprehensive product database with detailed environmental data, hosts expert-guided packaging sustainability discussion groups and has an interactive news blog that is updated several times per week. Additionally, Greener Package is building a comprehensive database of packaging raw materials and converted packaging drawn from ECRM’s Packaging MarketGate website. Data from this database will soon be available in Package Modeling in place of data from ECRM’s Packaging MarketGate website.

	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Sustainability For Wal-Mart, Sustainability is one of the most important opportunities for both the future of the company and the future of the world. The retailer sees opportunities to improve its sustainability in every facet of its business. Wal-Mart rolled out its Sustainable Packaging Scorecard in February, 2008 with the goal of reducing total packaging used in its supply chain by 5% by 2013. Currently, all Wal-Mart USA and Canada direct suppliers are required to enter packaging data for each SKU currently being supplied to the retailer in support of this goal. Further international rollouts of the Scorecard are ongoing.