Corporate Social Responsibility and Plastic Pollution

Running head: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction and Description of the Topic...........................................................................................3
2. Summary of CSR related news............................................................................................................3
3. Current Research Literature Review....................................................................................................5
3.1 Single use Shopping Bags..............................................................................................................5
3.4 Research connections to the current news story............................................................................6
4. Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................6
Reference List and Bibliography.............................................................................................................8

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1. Introduction and Description of the Topic
Plastic Pollution is one of the hazardous pollutions against which we are fighting since the
start of the 21st century. The use of plastic not only affects us, but it also affects the marine life. Due
to this pollution, many marine species got endangered as the plastic is non-bio-degradable and people
through these plastics made things as waste in the sea after they are being used. Atzori, Shapoval and
Murphy (2018), professes that not only the marine life is getting endangered but when big waves
come to the coastline, they bring a huge amount of plastic waste with them thereby covering the
whole coastline with plastics and plastic made things. However, Dauvergne (2018), also informs that
the Government of different countries even joined their hand and is spending a huge amount of money
for making a plastic free environment. Within the scope of this report, a detailed discussion and
analysis based on the highlighted news article have been conducted in order to showcase how the
government of various countries have taken a leading role to prevent plastic pollution by ensuring
proper and scientific usage of plastic along and restricting the flow of non-biodegradable plastic
with runaways in to oceans and landfills.
2. Summary of CSR related news
The article highlights clearly the stats provided by the Science Awareness journals and UN
Environment Program. These sources reveal that plastic have been produced at an average rate of 8
billion tons per year out of which approximately 6.3 billion are converted to plastic waste and the
minor rest percentage becomes recycled. The worst part of the impact of this, as discussed in this
article, is when the non-recycled and non-biodegradable plastic goes in to ocean with the effluents and
the runaways. In the ocean bed, the effluent plastic creates fragmental minuscule particle and amply
harms the marine life causing imbalance in the ecosystem. As per the findings of Horodytska, Valdés
and Fullana (2018), plastic component in the landfills have also increased by 0.6% in the last few
decades because the quality, texture and combination of the soil is being affected. So, to quote
Horodytska, Valdés and Fullana (2018),
“Our fight is against the way we use and dispose of the plastic.”