Sometimes, few eco-friendly actions are quite hard to practice individually. Fortunately, since corporations are responsible for environment pollution, they try to compensate for it. There is a CSR(Corporate Social Responsibility) program for those actions which need to be done by big groups. The great advantage of CSR is that the effect of it is huge since it comes into an action on a large scale. Also, it has a several good effect to a company, because CSR improve‘s the corporation‘s image. A rental car company's tree-planting program and a semiconductor parts company are two good examples.
Ten years ago, a rental car company noticed the danger of air pollution caused by the pollution emitted from some vehicles and they started a tree-planting program. A foundation established by the corporation plants one million trees a year in USA, Canada and Europe. However, unlike other years, they are working on planting 50 million trees this year to ceremony it’s 10th anniversary and to thank customers for their loyalty. According a study, 10 million trees can absorb more than 10 million pounds of carbon and provide an estimated $27 billion worth of environmental benefits in only ten years. Biodiversity is also one of the great achievement of this project, with over 50 different species of trees planted in over 15 states in USA. Also, as the tree planting program takes air, people started to have a better image on the company. So the program is like killing two birds with one stone.
In addition, there is another company that started to care about how horrible water pollution is to the local people and to the nature years ago. So it went into constructing wastewater purifying facilities for the local environment. Recently, water shortage has been a huge problem since the water supply will not catch up to the water consumption. So manufacturing wastewater reclamation as a source of ultra pure water will help not only the local people but also industries to get out from that trouble. Besides, the corporation started to use and make environmentally friendly materials, which made the profits of the company increased.
To sum up, as the environment pollution is getting worse and worse, people need to find ways to make it better. However, since there are few things that government or individual cannot practice, corporations try to live down what they had done to the nature and actively participating in eco-friendly business. A car rental company's tree planting program and an electronic company's water purification program are the examples. Through such activities, companies are making progress in making a eco-friendly world.
Though the individuals have to try to save the environment using less water and doing recycling, the companies or factories should take their social responsibilities to environment because they make a plenty of pollution. Also, I heard that the more developed countries, the more corporates care the environment. In fact, getting social responsibilities for environment is considered as an ethic value, but I think it must be an obligatory for sustainable future.
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