... more demanding. Increasingly, consumers and shareholders alike want to know that the companies they buy their goods from and put their money into as shareholders are acting responsibly in the environmental and social arenas, as well as making a profit. Just as it is no longer acceptable for a mining company, for example, to come into an area, strip minerals out of the ground and create an unmitigated environmental catastrophe for the local people before moving on to the next mine site, the community also has a say in how much packaging they will accept at the supermarket and how much environmental damage a company creates in the process of getting the food onto their tables, furnishings into their homes and clothes onto their backs. It is not only the company that is under scrutiny, but the whole supply chain. For organisations that have gone down the sustainability road, all their suppliers ...

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