Introduction
This case study concerns a dilemma faced by the environmental compliance manager of a plastics manufacturer, reference the amount of toxins discharged in the factory’s wastewater released into an adjacent lake. Although the levels are within current limits, failure to introduce new (expensive) technology to reduce the levels further could not only make the lake’s fish unsafe for human consumption, and cause the imposition of future regulatory constraints on the company, but could damage the company’s profitability.
Firstly, the environmental compliance manager Jonica Gunson has to consider all the affected stakeholders in this scenario. In terms of spending ...