Analysis corporate practices for sustainable sourcing

22 February 2018

Stanford researchers analysed corporate sustainable sourcing practices. While more than half of the global companies they surveyed apply sustainability practices somewhere in their supply chain, these efforts tend to have a much more limited reach than consumers might imagine.
More than 70% percent of sustainable sourcing practices cover only a subset of input materials for a given product. For example, a company might use recycled materials for the packaging of a product, but leave the remainder of a product’s upstream impact unaddressed. An article about the research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Press Release Stanford University, 12 February 2018).
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