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Ventures such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay Transport, an innovative partnership between the U.S. government and the freight community, has helped steward industry toward a new approach to managing the supply chain during a product’s entire lifecycle – from raw- material procurement through to aftermarket support, reverse logistics, and recycling. The effort, which touts companies such as Dell, Lowe’s, JC Penney, Nike, IKEA, Wal-Mart and The Home Depot among its members, aims to reduce 66 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, 200,000 tons of nitrogen oxide emissions, and 150 million barrels of oil annually by 2012. While the politics of green stewardship have been gaining traction for some time, the realization that supply chain management and environmental compliance go hand in hand is just beginning to take hold and grow.
opened the door for innovative material handling solutions – especially those that are flexible and scaleable enough to meet changing transport requirements while also accommodating industry and enterprise protocol for green policies. Who better to steer global businesses toward a greener operational blueprint than a business whose legacy grew out of the recycling industry. Totally Green Manufacturing Inc. brings to bear its own pedigree in the plastics recycling business to drive the design and application process of its featured “Green Pallet,” notes Hy Elster, president and CEO of the Boca Raton, Fla-based company. As the lightest pallet on the market today, the Green Pallet offers shippers and consignees a glimpse of what may very well be the composite of tomorrow’s warehouses and distribution facilities. “We have been in the business of recycling post-consumer HDPE and PET bottles and regrind since 1980. The recycled plastics industry is very competitive and we saw an opportunity to move one step further, to go full circle, by creating a recycled plastics
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Emerging acceptance of the role supply chain initiatives can play in driving environmental compliance has
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GREEN PALLET ASSEMBLY IN 4 EASY STEPS
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