Abstract:
The global warming caused by the Green House Gas (GHG) is a hot topic in recent
year in the world. The transportation is considered as one of the major GHG emitting
operations in a company and also these operations incur more cost to the company.
However organizations are not much aware and consider about the GHG but the cost.
Whoever with the growing trends in climate consciousness among people or the
consumers, therefore apparel industries are moving towards in that direction which is
become a climate conscious company. The main objective of this study is to assess
the transport related GHG emission and saving potential in relation to transport
optimization at Textured Jersey PLC .GHG protocol Part 3 and ISO 14064 Part 1
were used to conduct the assessment. There were five emission sources were
identified as employee commuting, upstream transportation, downstream
transportation, business travels, and waste item transportation. All the data related to
those five emission sources were gathered by relevant data sources mainly from
running sheets, air way bills, sea freight bills, foreign travel requesting sheets and
check sheets. The collected activity data were converted to the CO2e using relevant
emission factors. The results indicate that the total transport related carbon foot print
as 1878.25 tons CO2e per year. The employee commuting contributes 357.77tons
CO2e per year emissions and it is accounted as 19% from total transportation
emission of the company. The upstream transportation represents 1081.38 CO2e tons
emission and it is accounted as 58% from total transportation emission of the
company. The downstream transportation represents 383.85tons CO2e.of carbon
emission and it is accounted as 20% from total transportation emission of the
company. The Business travel represents 54.62 tons of CO2e.emission and it is
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accounted as 3% from total transportation emission of the company. The waste
transportation represents 0.628 tons of CO2e Total saving of 518 tons of CO2e were
estimated based on the options identified to make efficient vehicle capacity
management and transport demand management in the organization. Also GHG
emission related Key Performance Indices (KPIs) were developed and estimated
reduction targets were set for further monitoring purposes.
