Elements of green supply chain

Elements of green supply chain

  The green supply chain content covered every part in supply chain, the main contents are green procurement, green manufacturing, green sales, green consumption, green recycling and green logistics.

1. Green procurement

It is basic on the demand of green manufacturing, the enterprise should chose the material company is friendly to environment, offering the environmental raw material, and the other hand the enterprise should fully considerate the environment factor to achieve the sources recycling during the purchasing, reduce the raw material and cut down the waste, implement the green procurement.

  (2) Green manufacturing include the green design and green produce. Green design is a whole new design concept, also called the Ecology design, environment design and life cycle design. It is to think over what a product will influence the environment during it life cycle, including energy saving, detachability, long life, recyclability, maintainability and repeatability. Green produce is required to use a significant produce way which can reduce the energy and resources, in the mean time, during the process of producing, minimum the body injury and environment pollution, for example, reducing the radiation, noise, and toxic gases and liquids.

  (3) Green sales is mean the company among the fully satisfy the consumption demand during the sales process, strive for the profit and developed level, still guarantee consumers safety and healthy, comply with the principle caring the environment protection and saving resources in the process of before sales, in the middle of sales and after sales service.

  (4) Green consumption

Green consumption primary have three levels definition, first is to propose consumer chose the green product, the kind didn’t been pollute or helpful for public healthy, second is caring the way of handle the garbage during the consumption, avoiding the pollution, third is leading customer changing their consumption concept, become more natural, healthy, but also reduce the energy and sources.

  (5) Green recycling

Green recycling is considering the recycling dealing cost and recycling value of product, component and package, analysis a best recycling program.

  (6) Green logistics

Green logistics is mean during a whole logistics activity, minimum to produce toxic substance. For example, reduce the exhaust emissions, and noise pollution and chemical liquid impact the soil and water, making the whole logistics activity maximum the benefit to environment.

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