business ethics and environmental pollution. companies who ignored it and faced consequences.

1. BUSINESS ETHICS AND
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

2. INTRODUCTION
• Business Ethics means the set of rules or principles
that the organization should follow.
• Through ethics, a standard is set for the organization
to regulate their behavior.
• Environmental pollution is defined as "the
contamination of the physical and biological
components of the earth/atmosphere to such an
extent that normal environmental processes are
adversely affected."

3. SOME COMPANIES WITH UNETHICAL PRACTICES
• Nestle
• Fiat Chrysler
• Mahan Coal Limited
• Volkswagen
• Coca Cola

4. NESTLÉ – ETHICAL PROBLEMS
• Swiss multinational company founded in
1866 by Henri Nestlé.
• It is a food and drink processing
conglomerate corporation.
• Nestlé has partaken in multiple unethical
practices like child labor, human trafficking,
exploiting uneducated mothers, stealing
clean drinking water etc.
• Nestlé had been pumping out 200 gallons
worth of freshwater out of Michigan – water
that the people of Flint desperately need.
This crisis has made children lose their hair,
develop skin lesions, and go blind just from
bathing.

5. • Nestlé along with other
corporations also persuaded the
World’s Water Council to change
drinking water to a need rather
than a right so they could sell more
packaged water.
• They sell their water at US $2 per
bottle.
• Nestlé also sold baby formula in
1970s-90s. They made it seem that
their infant formula was almost as
good as a mother’s milk, which is
highly unethical for several reasons.

6. NESTLE – Environmental Pollution
• Top brand responsible for plastic waste during 2017.
• One of the top three brands responsible for producing plastic waste
in over 42 countries.
• Top plastic polluter in Philippines.

7. FIAT CHRYSLER – Business Ethics
• Italian/American multinational
corporation and is the world’s eighth
largest auto maker.
• Established in October 2014 by merging
Fiat and Chrysler into a new holding
company.
• The Fiat Chrysler Automobiles scandal
is unethical under the Virtue Theory
because their ethical thinking was to
cheat the emissions test and they
ended up breaking the rules and are
now dealing with the consequences. If
they came forward, this thing could
have been smaller than it ended up
being.

8. MAHAN COAL LIMITED – Environmental
Pollution
• Mahan Coal Limited is a 50:50 joint venture (JV) firm of Hindalco
Industries (Aditya Birla Group) and Essar Power.
• Residents of Amelia village of Singrauli filed their Community Forest
Rights (CFR) claim and presented documentary evidence that would
establish that they have been dependent on Mahan forests for their
livelihood for several generations.
• Villagers and activists have registered protests and complaints against
development of coal block raising livelihood and environmental
concerns.

9. COCA-COLA – Business
Ethics
• The Coca-Cola Company, an American corporation
founded in 1892, produces sweetened carbonated
beverage and is a global symbol of American tastes.
• With over 500 brands and more than 4000 products,
they are the world’s largest beverage company.
• Coca-Cola set up a plant in Kala Dera because of a
favorable tax incentive, water access and a growing
Indian market, and was accused of exacerbating
water shortages in the area as a result of
indiscriminate mining of groundwater for its
operations.

10. • In 1998, the Kala Dera groundwater was declared as overexploited – the worst
category of groundwater in India, yet Coca-Cola built a new bottling plant in 2000.
• For farmers, loss of groundwater translated directly into a loss of income.
• For children, it meant leaving schools to provide a helping hand in a household
since the women had additional burdens.
• A hunger strike was reported outside a Coca-Cola plant which ended when the state
government agreed to study charges of pollution and exhaustion of water supplies.
• As Coca-Cola was aware that a place like this will not be available easily with
cheap labor and tax incentive so they promised to provide a solution that
guarantees water availability to the area, while maintaining social acceptance in
times of drought and exploitation.
But this never happened.

11. VOLKSWAGEN:
POLLUTION SCANDAL
• Volkswagen, shortened to VW, is a
German automaker founded in 1937
by the German Labor Front.
• Volkswagen Group in one of the
largest automaker worldwide.
• Volkswagen translates to “people’s
car” in German.
But they lied to customers on a much
large scale.

12. THE CASE
• In September 2015 Volkswagen Group was found violating and
manipulating the norms of Clean Air Act. The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) found that many VW cars being sold in
America had a "defeat device" - in diesel engines.
• While testing the devices as the engines of VW had computer
software that could sense test scenarios by monitoring speed,
engine operation, air pressure and even the position of the steering
wheel.
• The cars were found emitting 40times more NOx which is
responsible for the shorter life span and premature deaths. But they
were reluctant and were advertising their diesel cars as “NOT DIRTY”.
And to prove that said statement they also performed a test to
prove.

13. • Companies like BMW, Mercedes and VW came together to gain the trust in diesel cars
with a study. (This was a plan to fool the public.)
• The purpose of the study was an attempt to show the new diesel
technology, represented by VW Clean Diesel vehicles was much more environmentally
friendly than the old ones and would not result in any type of health issues.
• But this was all fake to regain the trust of the public.
• VW was forced to pay $25 billion in fines and to buy back over 550,000 vehicles from
the consumers who bought it and there were endless lawsuits filled by from upset
customers against VW.
• Due to this, the air quality was damaged. There were premature deaths, severe health
impacts. There were 10,000 premature deaths in a year in Germany only due to
nitrogen dioxide.

14. OUR OPINION
• People usually believe everything that comes from
big names.
• Innovative technologies that are eco-friendly must
be introduced.
• Continuous environment audits to strengthen the
vision pollution free atmosphere should be done.
• Annual targets for reducing their single-use plastic
should be set. Begin reduction efforts by
eliminating the most problematic and unnecessary
single-use plastic.

15. “A business is not an isolated entity like an island, a
business enterprise is a part of the society and
influenced by society and should adjust to the
preferences and values of society. So the main purpose
of business ethics is to draw a line between individual
betterment and social betterment.”

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