Green Logistics: An Environmental Responsibility

Abstract

One of the big dilemmas of the world is to address the threatening effects of pollution in the different part of the globe. Pollution and environmental hazards such as global warming, climate change, acid rain, greenhouse effect and the like may occur. To ease this environmental turmoil, the business entities like the logistics companies are adapting plans to lessen the cause of pollution, thus some of them include in their operational practices the so called Green Logistics and Reverse Logistics (Bearing Point 2008).The study determined the Green Logistics as Operational Practices in terms of Material Handling and Transportation, A total of 30 personnel of HG Premier International Trading, Inc., assigned in the Office and Operations Departments responded to the survey questionnaire and FGD, Study showed that Green Logistics Operational Practices was “Good”. Material Handling got an average mean of 3.02 while transportation got a 3.24. The entire stated problem on Transportation was pegged at weighted mean of 3.0 except on the congestion of public road with 3.53. As such, Green Logistics Operational Practices on Material Handling and Transportation requires improvement. The use of energy saving material handling equipment and non-fossil fuel for the vehicles in transportation, should be initiated and/or implemented to reduce the cost of fuel consumption and eliminate smoke emission, For the government, there is a need for an additional equipment detection of air pollution/smoke emission. Furthermore, the need for a strict government policies and rules and regulation lessen the air pollution and smoke emission of the carriage particular during the peak hours. Finally, the use of an MIS and/or routing software to have a systematized process while on the operation.