"If all the people who live by garbage on Earth formed a country, it would be the world's largest"
In many cases, the companies recognise the need to give greater consideration to understand the indirect environmental impacts of their activities. Sometimes this understand ends at the consumer purchase phase. After that is a "third part affair"... But this perception is changing.
Background
• Anti-litter campaigners have called on the fast food industry to take more responsibility for the food and packaging it sells as takeaways (UK) • Carrefour was the first major retail operator to abolish free plastic bags (Spain) • ECOEMBES waste management and recovery • Energetic sustainability based Banks risk analysis model • And obviously, cigarette littering campaigns too • ...