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In Supply Chain Logistics Management, There’s a Reverse Gear–and It’s Green–Part 2

By Dave Meyer on March 3, 2011 1 Comment asset recovery, Dave Meyer, Dell, Dell Financial Services, Design cycle, eco friendly pet products, efficient warehousing systems, Full Circle program, Gil Friend, Global Alliance, Greenbridge International, hazardous material programs, Hewlett-Packard, HP, John Kunkel, Marc Gunther, Noranda, obsolete equipment disposition, Patagonia, product life cycle, Product modularity, product responsibility, product take-back programs, Product traceability, reconditioning, recycle, recycling programs, refurbishing, remanufacturing, resell, reverse logistics, RoHS, SEEDS, Sustainable Economic and Environmental Development Solutions, The Truth About Green Business, upcycling, Walmart, waste streams, WEEE, Worldwise, zero-waste

In Supply Chain Logistics Management, There’s a Reverse Gear–and It’s Green–Part 2

Once you determine which products pose the greatest asset value in terms of recoverability, you should then look for potential ways to reprocess or reuse waste byproducts or other manufacturers that may be turn your waste into their product feedstock. Your company, your customers and the environment will benefit tremendously.

A Day in The Life of a Chief Sustainability Officer

By Kathrin Winkler on November 10, 2009 6 Comments APJ., Battery regulations, best practices, Climate Corps, corporate sustainability, CSO, data sets, DESC, E3, EHS, EMC, energy consumption, energy efficiency, Energy Star, engineering, Engineering's Energy Efficiency and Effectiveness, environment, environmental, Environmental Sustainability Board, eWaste regulation, facilities, GHG emissions, Green Business, Green Champions, Green-IT, Innovation Conference, mentoring, Principles of Environmental Sustainability, procurement, product compliance, ranking, renewable energy, RFP, risks, social, strategy, supply chain, sustainability, The Green Grid, vendor, waste, WEEE, WEF, WRI

The following is an account of one day on the job with Kathrin Winkler. She is Sr. Director and Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC Corporation, where she has a history of taking on entirely new roles in which she has to fill in the interstices between more traditional functions. She took on the full-time sustainability position in July of 2008.