A means of ensuring the safe delivery of a product to the consumer in sound condition and at min-imum cost'.
What is this British Standards definition defining?
An Environmental Impact Assessment does not necessarily include cumulative effects or impacts.
True or false?
Which of the following would logically and normally be factors in the design and layout of a new warehouse?
Some environmentally-conscious individuals feel that the clearing of rain forest, particularly in In-donesia, has had a catastrophic effect on the local environment. The forest is being cleared to enable a particular oil crop to grow and be harvested. What is this crop which has attracted so much atten-tion?
‘XXX occurs when productive land is made economically unproductive, for example by large scale deforestation. XXX is caused largely by pressures for subsistence food production, growing com-mercial crops, and meat production in arid and semi-arid areas’
CIPS has created a list of the ten most common CSR issues in supply chains. Which one of the fol-lowing is not on that list?
Some sources of XXX are a vanishing resource, some pollute the environment or produce toxic waste. The challenge of producing sufficient ‘clean’ XXX has led in recent years to developing re-newable XXX sources.’
Thinking of the XXX Sustainability Index, what does the ‘XXX’ represent?
What has been defined as: ‘a process whereby organisations meet their needs for goods, services, works and utilities in a way that achieves value for money on a whole life basis in terms of generating benefits not only to the organisation, but also to society and the economy, whilst minimising damage to the environment’
‘CSR’ is an abbreviation meaning:
