3.2. Paradoxes of green logistics
According to Rodrigue et al. (2001), green logistics is made up by two words green and logistics and showed that the green
and logistics are often in opposite to each other. Logistics are used to manage its different activities strategically through cost
minimization but this cost minimization comes at the expense of the environment. Thus there is a kind of paradox between
the "green" and "logistics". Paradoxes are occurring in several key areas - cost, time/availability, Network, Reliability,
storage, e-commerce.