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Sustainable procurement: Everything You Need to Know

Precoro

March 21 was the second annual iteration of World Sustainable Procurement Day , an online event organized by the Sustainable Procurement Pledge team, SPP Chapters, SPP Champions, and partners to raise awareness about the importance of ethical procurement and to share the best sustainability practices with organizations worldwide.

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Packaging and the Road to a Circular Economy

EcoVadis

Nearly everything we touch has packaging. Think about all the variables in packaging – types of plastic or metal, variations in shapes, inks added for marketing and regulatory labeling, the list goes on. During our Sustain conference in April, Amcor presented its plan and pledge to have 100 percent recyclable packaging by 2025.

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Understanding Supply Chain Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

A few ways companies can begin to offset their carbon footprint is to take a deeper look at product packaging, energy efficiency, alternative fuels, route optimization, and returns and recycling programs. As a result, Mars has been able to procure renewable electricity to cover the entire business in those specific countries.

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Three Ways Procurement Can Drive Sustainability Through the Supply Chain

SupplyShift

SupplyShift takes a look at three ways that supply chain professionals can drive sustainability through procurement practices. Go back a decade or so, and this was undoubtedly the case; instead, consumers opted for plastic packaging and on-demand product deliveries. What do we mean by “sustainable procurement practices?”

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Three Ways Procurement Can Drive Sustainability Through the Supply Chain

SupplyShift

SupplyShift takes a look at three ways that supply chain professionals can drive sustainability through procurement practices. Go back a decade or so, and this was undoubtedly the case; instead, consumers opted for plastic packaging and on-demand product deliveries. What do we mean by “sustainable procurement practices?”.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

USPS slowing first-class package delivery to lower costs. This is a full five years ahead of the original target of 2030. Of these 37 projects, 23 are in the US, which brings Amazon’s total clean energy procurement in the US from 7.2 Apple, others face shipment delays as China Covid curbs squeeze suppliers. GW to 10.4

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters further highlighted an announcement by electric automaker Tesla’s management in Germany who unveiled a package of hourly wage hikes for 11,000 factory workers at the automaker’s gigafactory operations in that country. The global automaker who operates non-unionized facilities across the U.S.