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Some Good Guys: Electronics, Chemicals and Paper

In: The Green Multiplier

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  • Lutz Preuss

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The purchasing and supply function in manufacturing companies, generally speaking, does not match its growing importance to company profitability with an equally strategic contribution to environmental protection. The majority of companies were found to exclude the environment when assessing their suppliers. Where environmental initiatives are undertaken in the supply base, an arm’s-length approach dominates and the emphasis is more on greening products than on supplier manufacturing processes. The individual managers show some awareness of environmental challenges, but their activities concentrate on packaging and waste. While undoubtedly of some environmental importance, from a life-cycle perspective packaging and waste are quite peripheral.

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  • Lutz Preuss, 2005. "Some Good Guys: Electronics, Chemicals and Paper," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Green Multiplier, chapter 6, pages 94-113, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-51274-0_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230512740_6
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