Green logistics, a solution to atmospheric pollution
The entire
ecosystem is dependent upon its components. The components are dependent upon
each other since it is like a chain or like a pyramid that reigns all over and
all through the ecosystem. However, mankind and their various kinds of inventions
including the transportations have caused much harm to the environment. Now the
point is that if one of the components is damaged, the whole system or the entire
pattern will be at stake. The hazards of living will prompt into the ears of
all the human beings that it is better to die than to live in this polluted and
exceptionally unlivable environment. But why? It is so perhaps because man defiled
the atmosphere himself for his own sake. Broadly speaking, this has indirectly
caused serious harms to him.
The issues of
climate change and global warming due to the excessive emission of carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gases have posed to be a crucial problem all over
the world for the last twenty years to the utmost. These ill effects in the
atmosphere are especially caused by the smoke and gases given off by the transports.
It is, however, true and genuine that even if a couple of degrees are raised in
temperature, human beings will be seriously harmed and be in critical hazard.
This has been propounded by the Inter-government Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
(Reinman, 2012).
Transport is the
hugest source of atmospheric pollution in the logistics system. Man uses fossil
fuels in these various kinds of transport and resulting in it causes massive
increase of the emissions of carbon dioxide. The European Commission (2011)
opines that transportation on road report for forty seven percent of transportation
of goods in totaling in the European Union. Moreover, it is considered that between
the years of 2000 and 2020, world cargo transport will increase about fifty percent,
as per the knowledge of European Commission, 2006.
The European Union
ought to curtail its greenhouse gas release by forty percent by the year of 2030.
Even though a great deal of policies is being planned in the days of today, it
is still vague how they can be implemented in order to reach the goal.
Fortunately
enough, a number of companies are switching to sustainable or green logistics. However,
a number of practices concerning the reduction of the carbon dioxide emissions have
been adopted by many companies. Instances are, namely, Horizontal
Collaboration, Green Logistics, Sustainable Practices, and Consolidation Centre
and so on and so forth.
The couple of
words in the phrase ‘green logistics’ are charged with meaning; the phrase is particularly
suggestive. It is noteworthy that at the heart or at the core of the modern
transport system, the term ‘logistics’ can be found. What does it imply? It
refers to a degree organization and controlling the cargo movements. The modern
technology has brought it into reality. In the domain of the industry of the transportation,
green logistics have become one of the most significant developments. For a
great many concerns regarding the environment, ‘green’ and ‘greenness’ have
become sounding to be a couple of key words. Generally, they are considered to
be positive. It suggests congeniality with the natural environment, and in this
way, the term ‘logistics’ sounds to be advantageous. When these two words are
placed side by side, they imply a competent transport and distribution system that
is friendly to the ecosystem.
It is known that
in the late 1980s and at the onset of the 1990s, the term ‘greenness’ became a
key word in the transport trade. Moreover, it stretched its hands out of the increasing
consciousness of environmental problems. Particularly, the most enlightened issue
such as acid rain, Chloro Fluro Carbons (CFCs), climate change and global
warming. The World Commission on Environment and Development Report published
in 1987 gave green important urge in the political as well as in the economic domains
that sustainability and green logistics should be treated as an important issue
and that they ought to be the targets for international action. It is revealed
from a study that in the United Kingdom, around eighteen percent of the greenhouse
gases are given off because of road transport (Hill et al., 2012).
The European
Union supported CO3, that is, Collaborative Concepts for Co-Modality, scheme for
the goal of increasing the competence of European logistics with the help of
horizontal collaboration between European shippers. Apart from this, a great
deal of repetitive test cases will be created.
The notion of green logistics encapsulates and covers the areas
of green transportation, green storage and safekeeping, loading and unloading green
system, green packaging, green distribution processing, gathering or collection,
and green information management.
The expression green package can also be named and called to
be ‘ecological package’ or ‘environment friendly package’. It is entirely made
by natural plants; it can have propensity to degradation and endorsing sustainable
development. In short, the notion of green packaging is the perfect packaging that
can be used again and again or can be reused and recycled. It does never cause
contamination in human beings and also not in the environment during the product
life cycle (Gunjal et al., 2015).
The day has arrived when all the people are supposed to go
green, live green and love green. Trees or the greenery are the most essential
parts of the ecosystem. If they are neglected, the entire system will tumble
down one very day. That is why, all men, all women and all the children ought
to know and must be made aware of the beneficence of trees and greens and green
logistics. Only then by implementing the plans rather than just programming would
be capable enough to come to the aid of mankind. If not, man himself will be
ruined as one day may come like that. Therefore, it is always better and wiser
to invite the green logistics not only to go green but even to reduce the
carbon dioxide emissions from all kinds of transportation.
