green logistics
issues are gaining interest. Nevertheless, it is not easy to find
literature references on this topic (Richardson, 2001). In fact, the
literature review shows that this topic was not discussed until
1990 (Srivastava, 2007), when green logistics was considered as a
relevant social and economical issue. This paper mainly focuses
on studying how companies can have positive environmental
effects by making some operational changes in their logistics
system. There are different perspectives and theories to approach
the topic, but there is a lack of research into case studies.
Therefore, further research into case studies is necessary to
validate those theories (Aronsson and Brodin, 2006). For that
reason, this paper uses an example of a case study to discuss how
green practices can achieve both economic and environmental
objectives.