Module 2: Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP)
Overview: Why Integrate Environmental Factors into Purchasing?
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Other concepts you should know
Protection of natural resources
Natural resources include air, water, minerals, fossil fuels, plants, and animals. These resources consist of both renewable and nonrenewable elements. Protection implies sustainability, equitable access, and conservation of these resources.
Management of the supply chain
The oversight of materials, information, and finances as they move in a process from supplier to manufacturer to wholesaler to retailer to consumer. Supply-chain management involves coordinating and integrating these flows both within and among organizations. It is concerned with planning, implementing, and controlling the flows of raw materials, in-process inventory, and finished goods from the point of origin to the point of consumption, and the corresponding information flows. It includes purchasing, manufacturing, and delivery of the product or service.
Product stewardship
An approach to environmental protection in which manufacturers, retailers, and consumers are encouraged or required to assume responsibility for reducing a product’s impact on the environment. An example of this approach is a requirement currently being considered by some states, that a manufacturer takes back its product for recycling or disposal when it reaches the end of its useful life. It includes all of the following terms, which represent various approaches to product stewardship: product responsibility, shared product responsibility, producer responsibility, manufacturer responsibility, extended product responsibility, extended producer responsibility, and other terms.
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