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A CASE STUDY OF THE PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY 235

P&G is a publicly owned company; its stock is listed and traded on the
New York and Paris exchanges.
The geographic reach and corporate purposes of major corporations
require them to have well established internal governance systems and
long term strategic planning. P&G's Corporate Purpose is to: improve
lives, now and for generations to come. This requires the company to grow
responsibly and recently, to accelerate its commitments to helping solve
some of the world's sustainability challenges. In 2010, P&G announced a
long term (30-50 year) vision for sustainable products and operations, and
10-year goals. The vision is to:

• use 100% renewable or recycled materials for all products &
packaging,
• have zero consumer and manufacturing waste going into
landfills or dumps,
• design products to delight consumers while maximizing the
conservation of resources,
• power our plants with 100% renewable energy, emit no fossil-
base C0 2 or toxic emissions, deliver effluent water quality that
is as good or better than influent water quality with no contri-
bution to water scarcity.

Like many companies, P&G has long standing social responsibility
programs, such as to improve children's lives through "Live, Learn and
Thrive" with United Way, and the Children's Safe Drinking Water program
with PuR.
P&G's investment in environmental stewardship and science goes back
to the late 1950s, which has been important for guiding responsible growth
of the company over decades. Its environmental scientists have worked
with colleagues in academia, government, and industry, to develop meth-
odologies to study water quality, toxicity, biodegradation, risk assessment,
experimental streams, LCA, and other tests and frameworks to understand
the potential effects and fate of chemicals and products.

10.2 Why Develop an Integrated Sustainable Supply
Chain Management Program?

Since the LCA capability was developed around 1991, LCAs of many consumer
product categories have been developed. In the commercial world, LCAs are
frequently used for internal decision making and checked by academic or
government experts for consistency with ISO 14040 guidelines for LCA stan-
dard. Such studies are frequently not published in scientific literature because