While there is a burgeoning body of literature involving environmental issues in other business disciplines such as marketing, the cor responding literature involving logistics has been characterized as"small but expanding. Spurring this expansion is the recognition by a number of writers, such as Lambert and Stock as well as Handfield and Nichols, that respond ing to environmental issues will be one of the major challenges facing logistics and supply chain management in the foreseeable future. Such recognition tends to confirm the view that environmentalism has"come of age