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This Chapter explores the carbon footprinting process from a supply chain perspective. The overriding premise is that the footprinting exercise needs to encompass the product’s entire life cycle from the extraction of raw material, to the manufacture, transport, and use of the product; ending eventually in the disposal and recovery of the product. This Chapter will also explore issues and challenges in (a) organizing for and establishing an accurate carbon footprint and (b) acting on it to have a lesser impact on the environment.
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EU legislation on the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS ) and the Waste Electronic, Electrical, Equipment (WEEE).
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The carbon footprint of the 2010 160 GB iPod Classic is 50% of the footprint of the 2001 5 GB iPod Classic.
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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED ) is a third party green building certification developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC ).
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We use GHG “Scopes” for illustration. Other protocols measure emissions similarly—PAS 2050 simply follows the product or service supply chain without formally designating scope.
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Wal-Mart ’s SVNs are in Agriculture & Seafood, Textiles, Jewelry, Electronics, Wood and paper, Chemical-intensive products, Greenhouse Gas, Sustainable facilities, Logistics, Waste, and packaging.
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The intent of this DfE team was to design the chair to “Cradle to Cradle” standards set by the McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) firm.
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The WRI/WBCSD ’s GHG Protocol is currently developing standards to measure Scope 3 emissions.
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Apple assumes a use phase duration of 3 years for the calculation of handheld power consumption. Since there is a lack of a universal benchmark, Apple estimates of the amount of time and the intensity of power drawn during the use phase.
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The previous model iPhone3GS had a footprint of £ 121.
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http://www.patagonia.com/web/us/footprint /index.jsp.
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The Camry and 4Runner footprints were reported in http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122304950601802565.html.
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According to the 2011 Carbon Disclosure Project’s Supply Chain Program, 12% of respondents indicated that they are deselecting suppliers based on GHG criteria. More importantly, 56% of them reported that they would use sustainability criteria to select suppliers in the next five years.
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46% of CDP Supply Chain Program respondents have collaborative projects. In five years this number is expected to rise to 86%.
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Boone, T., Ganeshan, R., Jayaraman, V. (2012). Carbon Foot Print of Products—Supply Chain Approach. In: Boone, T., Jayaraman, V., Ganeshan, R. (eds) Sustainable Supply Chains. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 174. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6105-1_12
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