Sustainable Supply Chain
Sustainability can be maximized throughout the supply chain, beginning with concept and development then continuing through all phases of production and final customer distribution. Articles here focus on efforts by materials suppliers, product manufacturers and retailers to increase sustainability. These increased sustainability efforts are made to decrease the impact of the supply chain on future generations.
Sustainability in the Electronics Supply Chain
A discussion on sustainability in the electronics supply chain. The roundtable is co-chaired by Riverwood Solutions' Jeff Wallingford and EMSNow's Philip ...
Amazon to Triple ‘Frustration-Free Packaging’ Shipments
Amazon aims to triple the number of items shipped under its "Frustration-Free Packaging" initiative next year, BusinessWeek reports.
Amazon kicked off the program, ...
Companies’ 2012 Sustainability Plans: Focus on Employees, Suppliers
Employee engagement and supplier sustainability performance are the corporate sustainability initiatives that will get the most time and resources in 2012, ...
Phone Recycling and Environmental Sustainability
AT&T promo video about designing products with the environment in mind and using environmentally safe packaging.
Asda Launches $1.3bn Sustainabilty Savings Drive
Sustainability initiatives carried out by U.K. grocery store chain Asda saved the company £70 million ($110 million) in 2010 and it has committed to new goals ...
Tiffany Details Diamond, Metals Purchasing
Tiffany & Co. last year bought over 80 percent of its serialized diamonds either directly from a mine, or from a supplier that only ...
Atos to Use SAP Sustainability App; Greenstone Updates Acco2unt
International IT services company Atos will use SAP BusinessObjects Sustainability ...
Packaging Key to Sustainable Society, EUROPEN Says
Packaging should be seen as an integral part of achieving a resource efficient society, according to a paper by packaging trade body EUROPEN.
Green Paper on ...
The Business Case for Product and Value Chain Management
A World Resources Institute panel discussion with business leaders about the new GHG Protocol Product Standard and Corporate Value Chain (Scope ...
Hasbro Aims for 90% Sustainably Sourced Packaging; Epson to Supply BPA-Free Receipts
Hasbro released a Paper and Forest Procurement Policy outlining its procurement decisions for product packaging, as well a 2011 goal to source at least 75 ...
NHS Supply Chain Cuts Delivery Distances, CO2
NHS Supply Chain, the outsourced procurement arm of the U.K.'s National Health Service, cut delivery distances from 11 million to 9.8 million miles ...
Kroger Progressing on Sustainable Fish Goal
Kroger has announced that 65 percent of its top 20 wild-caught seafood species are sourced from fisheries meeting its sustainability standards, ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Green Chemical Standard, Singapore Ecolabel, WEEE
ANSI on Wednesday unveiled a new standard that establishes criteria for comparing chemicals and processes. The standard, NSF/GCI/ANSI 355 Greener Chemicals and Processes Information Standard, was ...
Site Matches Effluent Producers and Users; Software Analyzes Supplier Footprints
Consulting firm CH2M HILL is launching WaterMatch, a free social networking site to help industry and agriculture find source of effluent for water ...
Logistics Firms Move Towards Sustainability Checks on Supply Chain
Using supply chain scorecards to measure a supplier's sustainability is becoming widespread throughout the transport and logistics industry, as companies such as DHL and Eurostar aim ...
CDP Launches Supplier Emissions Scoring
The Carbon Disclosure Project and FirstCarbon Solutions have launched an initiative to score the CDP Supply Chain program, with performance scores introduced for the ...
Toyota, Honda Plants Among Hundreds Closed by Thai Floods
Honda and Toyota have stopped all production in Thailand as that nation's floods continue to rip through industrial parks, and now threaten Bangkok.
Thailand is ...
Calvert names Toyota, VW, Ford ESG Champs
Sustainable investment firm Calvert Investments has named Toyota, Ford and Volkswagen as models of environmentally and socially responsible business practice in a report.
The report "...
Ford, Microsoft Announce Supply Chain Info Drives
Microsoft and Ford have both launched efforts aimed at increasing the amount of information available on their vendors' commitments to social and environmental policies.
Starting in 2013, ...
Procter & Gamble Cuts Scope 2 GHGs, but Scope 1 Rises
Procter & Gamble's scope 1 CO2 emissions rose from 2.8 million to 2.9 million metric tons in 2011, but scope 2 emissions fell ...
