HGC News Note 052510

 

What are your customers or competition doing on the environmental front?

 

Supply chain information    While Walmart was not the first corporation to require suppliers to provide environmental information, it is probably the most noteworthy. Walmart recently reported five years of progress including progress on its goal of removing 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gases from the supply chain. Ford and Ikea are doing the same. Ford has contacted suppliers who represent a third of its annual $65 billion supply chain spending. Ikea has shown that based on sales there is a reduction but not in absolute emissions. Where can this information be found? In these companies’ annual sustainability reports.

Key electronics firms support RoHS revisions. What do they know that you don’t? When Companies like Sony Erickson, HP, Dell and Acer support the rigorous changes proposed for the revision of the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive, you should be planning accordingly.