Some it giants use relationships to erase bad records

Nongovernmental environmental organizations call for the realization of "green supply chain" newspaper reporter Ye Tiecho "Oriental Outlook weekly" reporter Chen Anqing some internationally renowned IT companies to the environmental costs to China "so far, 20 companies have responded", the Public Environmental Research Center director Ma June told China Youth Daily Reporter, "　　2010IT brand supply chain heavy Metal pollution research report released, they received feedback, originally only 9 It brand Enterprises responded, now increased to 20.　　At present, many well-known it brands around the world to adopt outsourcing production mode, printed circuit board and battery, power and other components mainly by upstream suppliers. Ma June told reporters that for a long time, it companies have been avoiding the establishment of a sound supplier environment Management system, which makes some serious polluting enterprises to rely on large suppliers and even listed companies to international well-known IT companies to supply products. "Well-known it brand enterprises in the Chinese market to obtain a large number of low-priced products, the environmental costs to the local."　　"said Ma June. Many of the polluting companies that have been announced are suppliers of well-known companies.　　For example, Huizhou Mei Rui Electronics Company's parent company for the Nasdaq listed companies, disclosed in its 2008 annual report, Cisco and Motorola are its largest two customer enterprises. Public information also shows that Hong Kong construction Tao Chemical group printed circuit board sales in Asia, its customers, including Dell and many other well-known it brands.　　One of its main production in the Pearl River Delta region printed circuit board of the subordinate branch of the director told reporters that the branch every year to produce eight hundred thousand or nine hundred thousand-foot circuit board, "Europe's customers more." Ma June believes that the environmental department has published a large number of corporate irregularities, but the IT industry is not willing to use the data to the supply chain of effective environmental management, this is irresponsible performance. "Especially in the IT industry, access to information is not difficult for them."　　Said Ma June.　　As a result, they have joined 34 environmental groups, calling on them to take more responsibility for environmental protection and to censor suppliers. April 15, 2010 and 16th before the report of the 2010IT brand supply chain heavy metal pollution survey, 34 environmental groups sent a letter to the CEOs of 29 well-known it brands to confirm that the offending enterprises were their suppliers and whether there were other suppliers with similar environmental violations.　　and whether the supplier environment Management system has been established. ' For questioning, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent and Siemens have been deaf for a long time, ' said Ma June.　　Other companies do not respond to it, but also busy with the use of relations to erase bad records. Some companies have responded positively as well. According to Ma June, Lenovo said on April 23, 2010 that Lenovo had conducted a survey to confirm that the companies listed in the 34 environmental groups were not Lenovo's suppliers and were willing to have environmental violations with public organizations on other suppliers.Issues, as well as the supply chain environmental management mechanism issues to do further communication. There are also companies actively follow up.　　A week after the letter was sent, Wang Jingjing, chief executive of the Center for Public Environmental Research, received a phone call from Haier, said Haier, who said it had investigated the supplier in the letter and asked the company to provide monitoring reports of heavy metal contamination. Japanese Panasonic, Sanyo and Haier were the most active in the response, followed by HP and Samsung in the United States, the company said.　　Written communications from these companies indicate that they will be reconciled according to the vendor leads provided by environmental organizations, and that they have already used public data to retrieve their tier-I suppliers and are ready to establish and improve the supply chain environmental management mechanism. ' The reason they are directly trusting these giants is because the international community values the social responsibility of these companies and has more responsibility for them, ' says Ma June. ' From this communication, some companies have less responsibility. ' Some IT companies support the disclosure of China's environmental information technically, but they lag behind when it comes to green environmental protection in their own supply chain.　　"Third party review April this year, environmental protection organization," green Eyes "South China Natural Council director Win Micheng has participated in 4 special audits, this audit is called" Third-party audit. "　　The so-called "third party audit", Win Micheng said, for pollution records of enterprises, to eliminate the "misdeeds", to go through three audits, the first is internal audit, called the First party audit, the second party audit is the customer's audit of suppliers, third party audit is outside the consulting company or environmental protection and other supervision units of the enterprise audit.　　These "misdeeds" are recorded in the database collected by the Centre for Public Environmental Research, which holds tens of thousands of pollution records from businesses. Win Micheng and other people went to 4 enterprises, two are metal factory, one is bed cotton factory, there is a Zhongshan life electrical Appliances Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and these 4 are Wal-Mart suppliers.　　"Wal-Mart attaches great importance to the green supply chain, will require the supplier production process is environmentally friendly, there should be no record of non-compliance, if so, must be explained and rectified, and feedback to the public." The well-known companies, such as GE, Wal-Mart, Nike, Adidas and Yida, are the collaborators of their environmental groups, who are reviewing suppliers through their databases and asking their suppliers to explain to the public, Ma said.　　"Like Wal-Mart, it will be strict with these companies to do audits."　　Zhongshan Life Electrical Appliance Manufacturing Co., Ltd. once there was a foul record of sewage, Zhongshan Environmental Protection Bureau on this bright yellow card. Win Micheng said: "Is not very serious heavy metal, is a relatively small index exceeded, but will require the entire electroplating process of sewage treatment process are audited, audit by qualified professional firms do, we audit their audit process." Ma June said that the introduction of third-party organizations to monitor the environmental protection, will enhance the credibility of the audit. "After the audit, we will provide the audit report, and send to other environmental groupsTextile receiving peer supervision, one weeks without objections, can remove the bad records of the enterprise. "He said that in their joint efforts with these enterprises, there are more and more suppliers pay attention to environmental protection."　　Last year, a number of domestic suppliers to communicate with them, to make a statement, said to improve measures to eliminate bad records. But he also told reporters that there are still enterprises with too many suppliers, unwilling to audit supply chain, "the management of suppliers than control heavy metal pollution is much easier, they do not want to do this work, reflects their management is still relatively extensive."　　Today, all responsible enterprises, not only themselves should be green enterprises, its entire supply chain should also be green. Ma June said that the ultimate goal of their work is to want enterprises to pay attention to heavy metal pollution, establish a long-term effective management mechanism to strictly control the supply chain of heavy metal emissions.