Applied Ethics and Sustainability: Case Studies on Responsible Business and Sustainable Practices

SOCI10042022T1
Applied Ethics and
Sustainability
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Table of Contents
Case1: Stone & Wood ....................................................................................................................3
Question 1 Responsible Business Themes.............................................................................3
Question 2 Business Strategy.................................................................................................3
Question 3 A responsible business.........................................................................................3
Case study 2 : The Pizzeria .............................................................................................................4
List of ingredients required to make margarita pizza.............................................................4
The steps in the standard system for making a margarita pizza.............................................4
Identifying the main raw material and energy inputs and waste outputs during the production
and distribution of a margarita pizza through to consumer disposal......................................5
Suggesting two improvements in the design of the margarita pizza and its packaging that
could make it more sustainable..............................................................................................5
Suggesting two improvements in the design of the pizza production system within the shop
that could reduce water, energy or transport service consumption, waste or pollution.........5
The ethical dilemma confronting the owners of The Pizzeria................................................5
Recommendation on the ethical dilemma and how it can be solved......................................6
References.......................................................................................................................................7
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Case1: Stone & Wood
Question 1 Responsible Business Themes
After analysing and conducting inception, stone and wood maintains a constructive focus
on enhancing sustainability of the company and is engaged in emphasizing clean energy. The
responsible business themes are understood in relation to the following.
Localisation: Stone & Wood brewery company is a local producer distributing their beer in
northern rivers of New South Wales. It mainly carry out its operations in Murwillumbah and
Byron Bay. The company is focused on ensuring the sustainable practices in both sites of
production.
Social innovation: The company is innovating rapidly on social level and is establishing high
values through adopting clean and sustainable practices. The company aims at improving the
level of its energy consumption.
Managing environmental footprint: The company is focused upon reducing energy consumption
and carbon emissions which is majorly relates to Murwillumbah site from brewing operations
(Dziubaniuk and Nyholm, 2020).
Question 2 Business Strategy
The immense growth and expansion of the Stone & Wood is a result of continuous high
levels of production which helped it to maximise customer engagement. However, its operations
leads to consequences raising social, ethical and environmental concerns. And the brewing
company is determined to operate ethically and thus it has developed effective strategies to
achieve sustainability milestones and it continuously plan to do good in their brewery business.
The clean business strategy of the company includes an individual crafted combination of
effective measures so that it can reach target of clean and optimum energy consumption
(Rendtorff, 2019). This strategy is focused at reducing energy effective and implementing on-site
solar and make effective use of other renewable energy as well as making investment in
acquiring carbon emission offsets.
Question 3 A responsible business
The business of stone and wood operates considering the impact of its operations on
environment and thus aims to adopt as much as possible sustainable practices to conduct
operations. In 2017, it has received the premier's award for environmental excellence at Green
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