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Article: Environmental purchasing-making it mainstream
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- Management Services
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Institute of Management Services Apr 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The following article formed the basis of a presentation to a recent Gloucestershire Quality Forum evening sponsored by the Institute's Gloucestershire Branch. The Gloucestershire Quality Forum is a joint venture between Royal Mail and Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology with active support from local professional Institutes
Reducing the impact that your business has on the environment is often interpreted as `putting your own house in order'. Clean up your act and that will solve your main environmental problems for you. This is certainly the focus of the environmental management standards, BS7750, EMAS and ISO 14000 which all look at site-based impacts and pay limited ...