Greener Purchasing
Subtitle: Opportunities and Innovations
By: Trevor Russel
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781351283403
Subjects: Industrial procurement; Environmental aspects; Government purchasing; Approvisionnement dans l'entreprise; Aspect de l'environnement; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Business Ethics; Development; Sustainable Development
Description: "Every organization, public and private, no matter what its size, purchases goods and services. Large organizations also have considerable influence over the practices of their suppliers. As greener purchasing practices have become more common in large organisations, the implications for companies in the supply chain have similarly increased. Yet greener purchasing policies remain the exception rather than the norm in large organizations. Why is this? And how can environmental purchasing practices that have produced tangible business benefits for a number of companies worldwide receive wider take-up?Greener Purchasing: Opportunities and Innovations has been published to facilitate the development and dissemination of best practice in environmental supply chain and procurement management worldwide. Divided into four sections, covering "The Public Sector", "The Private Sector", "Innovations" and "Case Studies", this book brings together international expertise from four continents, including contributions from organisations such as the US EPA, Environment Canada, Procter & Gamble, Xerox and The Body Shop, as well as describing burgeoning new initiatives such as the Japanese and European Green Purchasing Networks. It provides a number of checklists and examples on how to establish and maintain successful greener purchasing and supply chain practices in order to bring not only environmental, but business value to organisations of all sizes. The book is essential reading for purchasing officers, environmental managers, CEOs, consultants, academics and students interested in the topic around the world."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, Section 1: Public Purchasing; title: chapter Introduction; title: chapter 1 Implementation of Public Green Procurement Programmes; title: chapter 2 Towards Greener Government Procurement: An Environment Canada Case Study; title: chapter 3 Environmentally Preferable Purchasing: The US Experience; title: chapter 4 The Greening of Public Procurement in the Netherlands; title: chapter 5 Issues for Environmental Purchasing in Australian Local Government; title: chapter 6 Nordic Countries' Green Public Procurement of Paper; title: chapter 7 Greener Purchasing and Trade Rules: Can they be Reconciled?; title: part, Section 2: Private Purchasing; title: chapter 8 Encouraging Green Procurement Practices in Business: A Canadian Case Study in Programme Development; title: chapter 9 Do-It-Yourself or Do-It-Together? The Implementation of Sustainable Timber Purchasing Policies by DIY Retailers in the UK; title: chapter 10 Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Implications of Greener Purchasing; title: chapter 11 An Exploratory Examination of Environmentally Responsible Straight Rebuy Purchases in Large Australian Organisations; title: chapter 12 Integrating Environmental Criteria into Purchasing Decisions: Value Added?; title: chapter 13 Global Environmental Management: An Opportunity for Partnerships; title: part, Section 3: Innovations; title: chapter 14 The Green Purchasing Network, Japan; title: chapter 15 The European Green Purchasing Network: Addressing Purchasers across Sectors and Boundaries; title: chapter 16 Putting the Green into Greener Purchasing: Protecting Nature Consciously; title: chapter 17 The Role of Independent Eco-Iabelling in Environmental Purchasing; title: chapter 18 Ethical Purchasing: Developing the Supply Chain beyond the Environment; title: part, Section 4: Case Studies; title: chapter 19 The Practicalities of Greener Purchasing: A Guide with Examples from Washington State; title: chapter 20 Enabling Environmentally Conscious Decision-Making in Supply Chains: The Xerox Example; title: chapter 21 Purchasing Operations at Digital's Computer Asset Recovery Facility; title: chapter 22 Integrating Environmental Considerations into Purchasing Programmes at Procter & Gamble; title: chapter 23 Environmental Purchasing: Some Thoughts and an IBM Case Study; title: chapter 24 How Effective is B & Q's Timber Purchasing Policy in Encouraging Sustainable Forest Management?