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8. Appendices: Questionnaire

1) Demographic Characteristics of the firms

a) What is the ownership status of your firm?

i) Fully locally owned

ii) Fully Foreign-owned

iii) Foreign and locally owned

b) What is the Scope of the Market by your firm?

i) Local

ii) National

iii) Global

c)What does your firm manufacture?

i)Mining

ii)Chemical

iii) Electrical and electronics

iv) Metal

v) Beverage

vi) Papers

vii) Fertilizers

d) How many years has your firm been operating?

iv) Less than 20 years

v) 20-40 years

vi) 40-60 years

vii) 60-80 years

viii) 80 and above years

e) How many full-time employees are in your company?

i) Less than 100

ii) 100 to 200 employees

iii) 200 to 300 employees

iv) 300 and above employees

2. Green Supply Management of the Firm

a) What is the green procurement service(s) of your firm?

i) Corporate with suppliers to attain the environmental objective

ii) Co-labeling of products

iii) Purchase products with biodegradable packaging or recycling

iv) Purchase Energy-saving Equipment

v) Share knowledge on clean production technologies

b) What are the environmentally responsible design practices of your firm?

i) Design products that have a longer useful life

ii)Design products to promote the reuse of products

iii)Design products that promote renewable energy

c) What are the green manufacturing practices of your organization?

i)Training employees in safe production

ii) Use of recycled materials for production

iii) Use of standardized components to facilitate reuse

iv)Training employees for accident prevention

v)Use of controls and filters for harmful discharge and emissions

d) What is the green packaging practice(s) of your organization

i) Reduce the use of hazardous materials in packaging

ii) Use of biodegradable materials

iii)Use of life to evaluate environmental load

iv) Make efforts to find new reusable materials for packaging

v Ensure shape and material promote efficiency

e) What is the green distribution practice(s) for your organization?

i) Distribute products together

ii) Deliver products direct to the user

iii) Locate near customers to reduce the resource consumed

iv)Sell vehicles that have reached end-use time

f) What is your organizational performance?

i)Cash flow performance

ii)Profit after tax

iii)Return of sales

iv)Returns of investment

List of ISO 14001 Certified Companies in the U.S.A

1. Corporation

2. Communications Inc.

3.

4. Parcel Service, Inc.

5. Motor Sales

6. Corporation

7.

8. & Gamble Company

9. Pfizer Inc

10. Nestle USA

11.

12.

13. Microsoft Corporation

14.

15.

16. KERMEL

17.

18. ACTech North America Inc.

19. Solmax

20.

21. Shenzhen Increcare Biotech Co., Ltd

22. Electronic Recyclers International, Inc (ERI)

23. Lucideon Assurance (CICS Limited)

24. Integrated Recycling Technologies, Inc.

25. Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company

26.

27. Clark Material Handling Company (CMHC)

28. Verrico Associates

29. Alliant Corporation

30. LNI Swissgas

31. Trinity Consultants

32. California Electronic Asset Recovery, Inc.

33. IMSM Ltd

34. STS Electronic Recycling

35. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

36.

37. Ergotron, Inc.

38. Wastecorp Pumps

39. Automatic Systems Inc (ASI)

40.

41. Futurepast: Inc.

42. Toray Membrane Europe AG

43. SAI Global

44.

45. Felite Resin Technology Co.,ltd

46.

47.

48.

49.

50. VELP Scientifica srl

51. Danco

52. Environment International LTD

53. Mostardi Platt Associates, Inc.

54. Evac E.U.R.L.

55. DTN

56. Tex Tech Industries, Inc.

57. GEOMET Technologies, LLC

58. Liberty Environmental, Inc.

59. Enhesa – Global EHS & Product Compliance Assurance

60. Gamma Meccanica SpA

61. Acro Technologies, Inc.

62. Armas Su Armaturleri San ve Tic AS

63. Dynamic Lifecycle Innovations

64. Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P.

65. TrisKem International SAS

66. NSF International Strategic Registrations, Ltd.

67. Asecos Safety and Environmental Protection Inc.

68. Power Partners, Inc.

69. Homeland Surveillance and Electronics (HSE)

70. IBERDROLA Engineering and Construction

71. Boart Longyear Inc.

72.

73. Carbochem Inc.

74. 1cc GmbH

75. Image Microsystems

76. T. Cozzie Consulting Inc.

77.

78.

79. Mecasolar

80. LotusWorks Ltd.

81.

82.

83.

84. IHS Markit

85.

86. Cepex

87. ECR World Inc.

88. JT Environmental Consulting

89. Risktec Solutions

90. KBR, Inc

91. Intelex Technologies Inc.

92. Newstripe, Inc.

93. HSB Global Standards

94. TeleCycle, LLC

95. IDEX Health & Science

96.

97. Cirba Solutions

98. IPL inc.

99. 3m company

100. Abbot laboratories

101. Caterpillar inc

102. Cisco systems

103. Dupont de Nemours

104. Fedex corpotation

105. Ford motor company

106. General electric company

107. Ibm corporation

108. Johnson controls, inc.

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