Host: Center for Environmental Information Science
Pages 267-272
Green procurement is being actively pursued by manufacturing enterprises as a means to reduce the environmental impact of products. For this paper, we gathered data on green procurement request from electronic and precision instrument companies, and made a comparison with companies ranked at the top and classified by industry of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun's 10th Environmental Management Survey. The results showed that manufactures in the electronics, precision instrument and automotive sectors require environmental management processes and environmental information on parts procured from suppliers, while raw-material industries, such as steel and chemistry, place emphasis on environmental measures for internal processes. In addition, it turned out that the automotive industry, and the electronics and precision instrument industriies have developed separate business models for green procurement based on their diferent needs: the former for reduction of the environmental impact of parts by the company specification, the latter for general-purpose procurement of parts.
