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The enforcement of the RoHS (Restrictions of the use of Hazardous Substances) Directive on 1st July 2006 requires all new Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) entering the European Union (EU) market to be free of six toxic chemicals, including lead and cadmium. The RoHS Directive prevents the use and presence of these chemicals in all EEE. In...
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... RoHS (Restrictions of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment) directive is an environmental regulation of the EU made to protect human health and the environment by restricting the use of certain hazardous substances in new EEE. The RoHS Directive is complementary to the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive and applies to the same wide range of products covered by eight (category 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 excepting 8, 9) of the ten indicative categories of the WEEE Directive (Table 1). The EEE products targeted by the RoHS directive are large household appliances, small household appliances, IT and telecommunications equipment, consumer equipment, lighting equipment, electrical and electronic tools, toys, leisure and sports equipment, and automatic dispensers. ...
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Purpose
– Sustainability in food sector is the need of the hour. It has been revealed that Green supply chain management (GSCM) is an emerging new and effective approach to improve the productivity, efficiency of any enterprises and to achieve sustainability. The purpose of this paper is to rank the key performance indicators which are responsible for implementation of GSCM in Indian dairy sector. Ranking is done by giving weightage to them based on survey reports. The study includes literature review, personal interviews and surveys using the detailed questionnaire. Since food processing industry, e.g. dairy industry is the major energy user and directly affecting the health of public is being chosen for implementing GSCM practices. The approach is to form an effective framework for successful implementation of GSCM in dairy sector. Grouping of key performance indicators has been done using factor analysis and thereafter Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method has been applied to determine the suitable framework based on relative importance of critical factors.
Design/methodology/approach
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Findings
– The work aims to examine the critical factors of GSCM and its ranking so as to implement GSCM practices in dairy industry in Indian context. Detailed questionnaire based on 79 parameters has been used for survey in dairy industry in northern India. Grouping of these parameters has been done using factor analysis. The ranking of these identified critical factors has been used by using AHP which is used to see the relative importance of these eight factors. These ranked factors would be used by the managers of the dairy industry to implement GSCM. The work is limited to Indian dairy industry but it can be extended to other industry also after identification of critical factors.
Originality/value
– It is certified that this research work is original and has never been submitted or published in any journal.
