quarta-feira, 27 de fevereiro de 2019

«As consumers and individuals, we have the right to know the source of the things we buy or the uniforms we wear»



Excerto:

«As consumers and individuals, we have the right to know the source of the things we buy or the uniforms we wear. For many of us, the trust we have in a retailer, brand or employer might be sufficient to stop us from asking too many questions and leave us free to go on living our lives.
However, for businesses things are trickier. They need to substantiate the trust they place in their supply chain with hard evidence and robust information. They need to know the answers to our questions should we ask them. And as with any other risk on a company’s risk register, they need to understand the scale and potential for impact of the risk.
In reality, a supply chain is far from neat and tidy which presents a challenge for business. Let us take a t-shirt as an example. What oversight do we expect businesses’ to have of the practices of the retailer where they buy their finished t-shirt? What about the manufacturer of the t-shirt? Or the trader that purchased the fabric before that? How about the mill that produced the fabric? Lastly, what about the labour conditions of the person picking the cotton on the farm a million miles away? (...)».

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