Green Logistics Practice: The Case Of Purified Water Bottling Companies In Ethiopioa
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2020-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose of the study is to investigate purified water bottling companies’ practice of
green logistics regarding plastic bottles after the water is used. It attempts to describe the
role of main stakeholders starting from the producers of purified water, government
offices, plastic bottle collectors and organizations involved in collection and recycling of
used plastic bottles. Due to the increased demand and consumption of bottled water in
Ethiopia, there has been a growing concern about the thrown used plastic bottles
everywhere and to minimize its impacts on environment, green logistics practice is an
important process which is not effective due to lack of awareness on source separation,
risky and inconsistent collection processes due to the fall on the selling price of collected
plastic bottles, high cost of transporting plastic bottles, low community participation and
low contribution of bottling companies to environmental protection. Primary and
secondary sources were used to gather data by self-administered questionnaires to water
producing companies, interviews with plastic recycling company employee and informal
plastic collector including books, magazine, journals and websites. The study sample
consisted of 111 employees selected through convenience sampling technique from three
water producing companies with a total of 1117 population. The results show that
producing companies do not give much concern for reverse logistics activities of plastic
bottles. The detailed analysis and interpretation of the data collected using tables and
grouping of responses given for the questions and interview questions done in the fourth
chapter. Finally the findings of the research and the recommendations given by the
researcher are included in the fifth chapter. The research is limited by not including
other purified bottling companies located at another part of the country due to corona
virus issue not to move from place to place and contact with companies easily. In terms
of future areas of research, measuring the green logistics management practice of
purified water bottling companies need to include the full supply chain actors as an area
which requires further investigations.
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Green Logistics, Plastic, pollution.