Green practices adopted by the mining supply chains in India: A case study

Abstract

Growing public awareness regarding mining environmental issues has put mining industries under a lot of pressure lately from everyone including government and their investors. In response to these pressures, mining industries worldwide have taken various green initiatives [for example, green supply chain management (GSCM)] to minimise their wastes and emissions and enhance performance and economic front. However, a large number of Indian mining industries are blamed for poor GSCM performance. The reason being unavailability of sector specific implementation guidelines or/and inadequate information regarding the factors that influence GSCM adoption. Hence, cases of three mining sectors and the green practices adopted by them are investigated in this research and it was found that apart from challenges suffered by small scale industries the green attempts made by large scale industries have been successful. Few policy suggestions recommended by the study helps validate the barriers of GSCM implementation and improve performance of mining industries particularly the smaller ones upon adoption. Copyright � 2016 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.