Albertsons Stores Cut Waste by 90%
LAS VEGAS — Supervalu-owned Albertsons announced that 30 stores located in the greater Las Vegas area, Henderson, Nev., and Boulder City, Nev., have diverted more than 90% of all store waste from local landfills.
Through recycling, organic composting and food donations, the stores combined to keep more than 21 million pounds of waste out of local landfills and donate 3.5 million meals to local food bank and hunger relief efforts in the past year.
At the end of 2007, the 30 Albertsons stores were generating an average of 1,588 pounds of waste each day per store, but today each store is averaging just over 100 pounds of landfill waste per day, a 93.2% reduction. Albertsons has thereby eliminated 978 full garbage truck trips annually to the landfill, equivalent to a line of trucks stretching five miles long.
http://supermarketnews.com/sustainability/albertsons-stores-cut-waste-90
Interesting, it appears that this business has made some great strides in a positive direction on this topic.
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Leave to the DU to always make me laugh in the morning.
I know I know!
Those things should never be shown unless they are fully dressed
I think it's a good thing and they have every right to crow about it. 
But as a Denver resident and Albertson's shopper, too, I hope our stores are either already doing this or will adopt this model soon. The other thing I like about Albertson's is their sale prices are really their sale prices, no exclusive to people who have "value cards." No extra plastic to carry around, my name, phone number and email isn't on file in some unknown HQ location. Love that! Plus, they're unionized. 
