Abstract: Green Supply Chain is a practice adopted by organizations to become sustainable from the source till the product is delivered to the customer. The objective of the study is to determine the practices adopted by the textile industry to implement green supply chain as well as the barriers to it. The paper also aims at finding out the effectiveness of the green supply chain practices adopted the companies. For the purpose of the study, responses were collected from 10 textile oriented businesses in India. The study concludes that recycling of returned products or scrap material, Reduce energy consumption in manufacturing and buildings, and Eliminate/Reduce or re-purpose manufacturing waste are some of the practices adopted by companies to implement green supply chain and the challenges faced by most of the organizations are high cost of environment friendly packaging and High cost of production of green products. The organizations post the implementation of green supply chain practices experience effectiveness in the organization in the form of drastic reduction in customer complaints, an improvement in the brand loyalty and corporate advantage for the firm.
Keywords: Green Supply Chain, Textile Industry, Sustainability, recycling.
Title: Study on the Green Supply Chain Practices of Textile Industries in India
Author: Anushka Bhattacharya, Haripriya Vallabhaneni
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
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