Sustainability Initiatives for Amazon: Green Supply Chain Management

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Table of Contents
Literature Review........................................................................................................................................3
A)Discuss the concept of sustainability by describing initiatives of good practices and name the people
who are known as exemplary practitioners..............................................................................................3
B)Justification for adopting a sustainability strategy. Discuss its importance to the environment and to
organizations...........................................................................................................................................3
C) Potential benefits of adoption and its effect in case of not adopting...................................................4
Overview of organization........................................................................................................................5
Select the sustainability initiative that you would suggest to chosen organization. Discuss the reason
why the organization should adopt the respective initiative.....................................................................5
Discuss the benefit of adopting the initiative and also investigate the type of costs the organization will
incur to meet the respective initiative......................................................................................................6
Choose a suitable sustainable initiative and also give a forecast of how it might develop in future........7

Literature Review
A)Discuss the concept of sustainability by describing initiatives of good practices and name the
people who are known as exemplary practitioners
Accordi Qian, Gaoqiang and Haimin, 2018, Sustainability refers to meet with the own
requirements without compromising the benefit of future generation. In other words,
sustainability is about protecting environment. In order to ensure long-term sustainability, it is
imperative to use efficient resources. For this purpose, entities adopt practices such as recycling,
reusing and more. In addition, they also use eco-friendly resources. Use of the efficient resources
helps the business entities in minimizing the negative influence of organization activities on the
environment. For this purpose, companies also adopt appropriate waste management techniques.
They install efficient operational tools in the business in order to minimize the environmental
impact. There are some good practices such as supporting the employees, water and electricity
conservation, chemical management and more. In addition to this, there are some other practices
such as efficient supply chain management, developing sustainable work policies and more can
be followed in order to facilitate sustainability in the business. It is analyzed that renewal clean
energy is the most suitable and effective example of sustainability. Additionally, solar energy is
also considered as one of best practices of sustainability. It is based on using the sunlight as a
source of energy. In current era, each and every company is likely to contribute towards
sustainability. In this context, Amazon also makes a significant contribution towards
sustainability. For this purpose, they have aim to reach at zero emission issues. In addition, they
also offer better facilities in the cities across the globe in order to serve customers and local
communities in an efficient manner. Apart from this, the entity is also working towards
minimizing the use of plastic and other such hazardous ingredients to minimize the
environmental impact in an efficient manner.
B)Justification for adopting a sustainability strategy. Discuss its importance to the environment
and to organizations
Sustainability strategies are adopted in order to make efficient use of available resources.
It helps in improving the efficient of the business entity. In addition, following sustainability
practices also increase the market reputation of the organization in an efficient manner. If a