Depleted uranium shells are among the goods covered by a government-wide sustainable procurement initiative. It sounds faintly bonkers - indeed, industry executives have mocked it as pointless and absurd - but, under new rules being introduced by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), weapons manufacturers have been told to account for the environmental impact of making depleted uranium shells or the social consequences of assembling cruise missiles.
The Sustainable Procurement Charter, which has been sent to defence suppliers to the MoD and which all will have to sign, tells companies to minimise any adverse effects on society from their activities, which may be hard to establish for makers of nuclear submarines or weapons of mass destruction.
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