GREEN LOGISTICS - A TOOL OF OPTIMIZING BENEFITS TO THE ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

 Today’s leading companies, large and small, are looking for ways to go green. They understand that if we want our planet to remain habitable for generations to come, we must work together, now to identify and reduce pollution, make our businesses more sustainable and ultimately move towards a Green environment. Logistics plays a central role in the global economy and therefore the industry can play a crucial part in the way business is done with regard to the environmental impact. Green logistics- It is not the new term, its origin was the mid 1980s. The term Green logistics is the process of minimizing damage to the environment due to the logistics operations of an organization, because logistics deals with packaging of materials. Packaging represents one of the greatest challenges to environmental friendly logistics while at the same time being vital in shipping and storage so the green logistics describes all attempts to measure and minimize the ecological impact of logistics activities, this includes all activities of the forward and reverse flows of products, information and services between the point of origin and the point of consumption. In this paper the writer tries to explain how far Green Logistics helps in optimizing the benefits for the environment.