Sustainable Purchasing (Environmental Management) Articles

CSR Procurement Guidelines - Blackbird Corporate Responsibility - Case study

Working on behalf of a small sustainability consultancy, we developed Corporate Responsibility procurement guidelines (including environmental, socio-economic and human rights impacts) for eight product categories to help procurement professionals meet corporate sustainability objectives. The categories were: paper; telecommunications; electronic equipment; catering supplies; energy; taxi and ...

Sep. 3, 2021

By Greenmetrics Ltd.

How Field Service Software Can Improve Your Service Business's Workflow

Is there any way to make Field Service Management more effortless and accessible for both clients and management? Of course, there is. Field service entails dispatching your contractors and mobile workers to various client sites to repair, install, and maintain equipment. Field Service Management is vital for any service your organisation provides. FSM is used to manage your field service ...

Jun. 17, 2021

By Eworks Manager

SSE - Leading Responsible Buying - Case Study

SSE, one of the largest utilities in the United Kingdom with revenues of over £28 billion, has been. providing energy and related services for over 70 years. The company has long been a leader in. sustainability and is continuously working on ways to improve its impact on the environment and. community. A priority focus area to strengthen sustainability for SSE is through its extensive ...

Nov. 13, 2018

By AMEE UK Limited

How product LCA empowers CSO

New Verdantix report highlights GaBi’s critical role across multiple business functions to maximise sustainability performance The recently published report by analyst firm Verdantix explains how thinkstep’s product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) software, GaBi, can support different business functions to incorporate sustainability considerations into relevant processes; decision-making ...

Oct. 6, 2016

By Sphera

Sustainable Federal Procurement Recommendations Published In Federal Register

On September 25, 2015, EPA published Recommendations for Specifications, Environmental Performance Standards, and Ecolabels for Federal Procurement. The notice describes EPA's recommendations for federal agencies that are purchasing environmentally-friendly products. Section 3(i) of Executive Order 13693, Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade, directs federal agencies to adhere ...

Oct. 2, 2015

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

2012 A Turning Point in Municipal Sustainable Purchasing in Canada

This article presents the trends, challenges, and priorities in sustainable procurement in 2012 identified by the Municipal Collaboration on Sustainable Purchasing and Reeve Consulting. Sustainable procurement refers to the purchasing of goods and services that is not based on unit cost alone. In this type of procurement, total cost of ownership (TCO) and environmental and ethical impacts are ...

Mar. 24, 2013

By Reeve Consulting

Manifesto for a resource-efficient Europe

In a world with growing pressures on resources and the environment, the EU has no choice but to go for the transition to a resource-efficient and ultimately regenerative circular economy. Our future jobs and competitiveness, as a major importer of resources, are dependent on our ability to get more added value, and achieve overall decoupling, through a systemic change in the use and recovery of ...

Dec. 17, 2012

By European Commission, Environment DG

Sustainable procurement of wood and paper-based products: Version 3

Version 3 of this guide incorporates the most up-to-date developments on the legality of forest products, new technological developments to control wood and paper supply chains and increase their transparency, and an expanded chapter on the social implications of forest products. Decisions regarding the purchase and use of wood and paper-based products can have far-reaching, long-term impacts on ...

Dec. 1, 2012

By World Resources Institute WRI

A look inside Disney`s new paper sourcing and use policy

Disney, one of the world’s largest media companies, made a big announcement today that can help the company move in a more sustainable direction when it comes to paper sourcing and use. This is a positive step toward environmental leadership by a company whose name is familiar to people around the globe. According to the policy, Disney will minimize paper consumption in its day-to-day ...

Oct. 11, 2012

By World Resources Institute WRI

How integrated reporting can help companies see the bigger picture

The United Nations has put global reporting by companies on sustainability among its proposed key outcomes for the Rio+ 20 summit in June. The “zero draft” policy agenda that negotiators will consider, calls for “a global policy framework requiring all listed and large private companies to consider sustainability issues and to integrate sustainability information within the ...

Mar. 22, 2012

By World Resources Institute WRI

Infrastructure transitions towards sustainability: a complex adaptive systems perspective

To ensure infrastructure assets are procured and maintained by government on behalf of citizens, appropriate policy and institutional architecture are needed, particularly if a fundamental shift to more sustainable infrastructure is the goal. The shift in recent years from competitive and resource-intensive procurement to more collaborative and sustainable approaches to infrastructure governance ...

Dec. 2, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

A general framework for new product development projects

Firms look for procuring a sustainable advantage over their competitors. Therefore, they should be both operationally and strategically efficient. However, as firms work with other companies, they are under threats of misunderstanding, inefficiency, difficult synchronisations, etc. These threats will be transformed into real business traps. In this paper, authors propose a global framework which ...

Aug. 17, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

BT calls for sustainable procurement from 6,000 suppliers

BT demands its suppliers to measure, report and reduce their carbon footprint with new sustainable procurement ...

Mar. 9, 2011

By Vital Energi

Sustainable procurement: human rights and greenhouse gas emissions

This paper reports on research based on the University of Leeds' supply chain as part of its sustainable development programme. The research examines the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in its supply chain and preventing human rights abuses by its suppliers. This paper is based on a case study of the University of Leeds and its suppliers using qualitative interviews combined with a ...

Oct. 4, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

New regulation of providing care for the elderly in the Republic of Slovenia

The aim of this paper is to highlight the Slovene and EU regulation of social care service for the elderly from the view of possible implementation of public?private partnerships (PPPs) institutes in this sector. The authors discuss the economic rationale for implementing of PPP in the field of the social public service of providing care for the elderly. The Slovene PPP forms are two-fold: as a ...

Oct. 1, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Corporate responsibility reporting of biodiversity in the supply chain

Industrial development, accompanying human population growth, has had a major role in creating the situation where bio-diverse materials and services essential for sustaining business are under threat. A major contributory factor to biodiversity decline comes from the cumulative impacts of extended supply chain business operations. However, within Corporate Responsibility (CR) reporting impacts ...

Aug. 9, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Consultancy case studies - Gateshead Housing Company

Gateshead Housing Company has commissioned SEQM to undertake three major pieces of work on Environmental Management and Sustainability; an environmental audit of the Company involving a review of existing company documentation, production of a draft environmental policy statement, outlining commitments to legal compliance, pollution prevention, preparation of a schedule of environmental ...

Apr. 23, 2010

By SEQM Ltd.

Sustainavle procurement of wood and paper-based products.

Almost half of the Earth’s original forest cover has been converted to other land uses (Bryant et al., 1997). Although estimated rates of net loss seem to indicate a slowdown, the total forest area continues to decrease; today forests extend over an estimated 30% of the total land area (FAO, 2006). Interest in procurement of wood and paper-based goods produced in a sustainable manner is growing. ...

May 28, 2008

By World Resources Institute WRI

Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-based Products, an Introduction

Decisions regarding the purchase and use of wood and paper-based products can have far-reaching, long-term impacts for the forests where they are harvested, the communities supported by wood-using industries, and the places where those products are purchased and used. The information in this joint WRI/WBCSD publication is organized around ten key issues, posed as “essential questions” that ...

Oct. 2, 2007

By World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Reducing and recycling plasterboard waste on a site where space is a constraint

Developments in major city centres can often have space constraints, which limit the space available for material delivery, on site construction and waste collection. Due to the location there can also be increased demands forefficient transportation of materials and waste. Early consideration of plasterboard waste prevention, minimisation and management can contribute to efficient site ...

Jan. 1, 2007

By WRAP (The Waste & Resources Action Programme)