Virginia slow to adopt eco-friendly products versus the rest of the US
Wal-Mart released a study tracking the adoption rate of eco-friendly products over less eco-friendly alternatives. They tracked the sales of products such as compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) and organic milk over the past month and compared it to last year. The Results Virginia has made some strides in adoption of “green” products. Everything but organic baby food […]
Wal-Mart released a study tracking the adoption rate of eco-friendly products over less eco-friendly alternatives. They tracked the sales of products such as compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) and organic milk over the past month and compared it to last year.
The Results
Virginia has made some strides in adoption of “green” products. Everything but organic baby food showed gains. There were especially big gains in “paper products,” mainly giant toilet paper rolls, (46% increase) and CFLs (49% year-over-year increase).
However, Virginia still lags the rest of the US in most categories…
Virginia is behind in every category but organic milk. Clearly, there is still more work to be done.
Interestingly, Virginia leads the nation in adoption of organic milk. Not sure why that is. Thoughts?
Ed. note: I realize that using people that shop at Wal-Mart as a sample population may not be a good indicator of how Virginian’s as a whole use eco-friendly products. However, it is a good method for comparing how Virginia stacks up against the rest of the country, as well as tracking the gains that eco-friendly products are making in the state. Therefore, I think the data is great for comparative purposes, but not absolute adoption rates.
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