What is Green Logistics?

"Environmental logistics" refers to the purification of the logistics environment and the best use of logistics resources while suppressing the harm caused by logistics to the environment during logistics. It includes the greening of logistics operations and the entire process of logistics management. From the perspective of logistics operations, including green transportation, green packaging, and green distribution processing. From the perspective of the logistics management process, the improvement of the logistics system is mainly based on the goals of environmental protection and resource conservation. It is necessary to consider both the greening of the forward logistics link and the greening of the reverse logistics system in the supply chain. The ultimate goal of green logistics is sustainable development. The criterion for achieving this goal is the unification of economic, social, and environmental interests.

Green Logistics

(Logistics term)

In the process of logistics, while suppressing the harm caused by logistics to the environment, the purification of the logistics environment is realized, so that

Compared with traditional logistics, green logistics has its own significant features in four aspects: goals, actors, scope of activities, and its theoretical basis: The theoretical basis of green logistics is broader, including sustainable development theory and ecological economics Theory and ecological ethics theory; there are more actors in green logistics, including not only professional logistics companies, but also manufacturing and distribution companies in the product supply chain, as well as different levels of government and logistics administrative departments; Green logistics has a wider scope of activities. It not only includes the greening of commodity production, but also the greening of logistics operations and the entire process of logistics management. The ultimate goal of green logistics is sustainable development. The criteria for achieving this goal are not only Economic interests, including social and environmental interests, are the unity of these interests.

Transportation: a large amount of energy consumption, pollution of the atmosphere and noise; increase in road demand area; emissions of exhaust gas; the transported goods cause damage to the environment

Storage: Chemical products will cause pollution to the surroundings; improper storage, explosion and leakage

Handling: product damage; waste causes environmental pollution

Others: oversized packaging, excessive packaging, packaging waste problems, recycling; reuse of waste materials, waste water, waste, garbage, etc. in circulation processing; logistics information, useless information caused waste

1. The awakening of human environmental protection awareness

With the continuous development of the world economy, the living environment of human beings is also deteriorating. The specific manifestations are: energy crisis, depletion of resources, expansion of the ozone layer cavity, environmental pollution, and ecosystem imbalance. Take environmental pollution as an example. Air pollution in more than 20 megacities around the world exceeds the standards set by the World Health Organization. Human understanding often lags behind the development of objective nature, and the significance of current ecological environmental protection is gradually recognized by human beings. Since the 1960s, human environmental protection consciousness has begun to awaken, and we have paid great attention to environmental issues, recognizing that there is only one earth and cannot destroy human homeland. As a result, the green consumption movement has risen in various countries around the world. Consumers are not only concerned about their own safety and health, but also the improvement of the global environment. They refuse to accept products, services and corresponding consumption methods that are not conducive to environmental protection, thereby promoting the development of green logistics. At the same time, the Green Peace Movement has been launched around the world. Environmental protection warriors, with their indomitable spirit of struggle, have given a variety of actions that endanger the environment.

1. Green supplier management

The quality of the supplier's raw materials and semi-finished products directly determines the performance of the final finished products, so the implementation of green logistics must be controlled from the source. Because the government strictly controls the environmental behavior of enterprises, and the cost performance and operating conditions of suppliers directly affect the economic activities of enterprises. So in green

1. Establish the concept of green logistics

Concepts are a kind of fundamental and universal worldview, a reflection of a certain level of productivity, living standards and ideological quality, and a guide for people's activities. Due to long-term low productivity, people pay more attention to low-level issues such as food and clothing, often ignoring long-term interests for immediate interests, and social interests for individual interests. Companies embark on predatory management due to this irrational demand, ignoring long-term and ecological benefits And social interests, which in turn leads to warnings from nature.

2. Promote green logistics operations

Logistics enterprises should formulate their green operation and management strategies from the perspective of protecting the environment to promote the further development of green logistics.

1) Choose green transportation. By effectively using the vehicle, it reduces vehicle operation and improves distribution efficiency. For example, rationally plan outlets and distribution centers, optimize distribution routes, improve common distribution, and increase the round-trip load rate; change the mode of transportation from road to rail or sea transportation; use green tools to reduce exhaust emissions, and so on.

2) Promote green packaging. Packaging is not only a commodity guard, but also a pass for a product to enter the market. Green packaging must be eye-catching and environmentally friendly, and it must also meet the 4R requirements, namely, Reduction, Reuse, Reclaim, and Recycle.

3) Carry out green distribution processing. From decentralized processing to professional centralized processing, to increase resource utilization and reduce environmental pollution in a large-scale operation; to centrally deal with corner waste generated during circulation processing, reduce waste pollution, and so on.

4) Collect and manage green information. Logistics is not only the transfer of commodity space, but also the collection, arrangement, storage and use of related information. Green logistics requires that all kinds of green information be collected, sorted, and stored, and used in logistics in a timely manner to promote the further greening of logistics.

3. Develop green logistics technology

The key to green logistics is not only relying on the establishment of green logistics concepts and the implementation of green logistics operations, but also the application and development of green logistics technologies. Without the development of advanced logistics technology, there will be no place for modern logistics; similarly, without the development of advanced green logistics technology, there will be no place for green logistics. Our logistics technology is far from the green requirements, such as logistics mechanization,

(1) Specific functions and contents are different

Traditional logistics: space transfer and time lapse;

Green logistics: protecting the environment

(2) Different goals

Traditional logistics: economic benefits of an economic subject;

Green logistics: various economic benefits

(3) Different logistics processes

Traditional logistics: forward logistics;

Green logistics: reverse + forward