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Question
What steps can an enterprise take to protect the environment from the dangers of pollution?
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Solution
Various business activities such as production, transportation and consumption of goods often result in overexploitation of natural resources. Thus, it is the responsibility of every business enterprise to control discharge of pollutants into the environment. The following steps can be taken by the business enterprises to control pollution.
(a) Control by top managers: The top management of every organisation should be committed to creating, developing and maintaining a work culture conducive to environmental protection and pollution prevention.
(b) Control by employees: Employees at all the levels of an organisation should be committed to keeping the environment clean and protected.
(c) Better technology: Enterprises should employ good and superior technologies of production and use scientific techniques for waste disposal. This will ensure environment protection and pollution control.
(d) Follow rules: Enterprises must conform to the rules and regulations enacted by the government for the prevention of environmental pollution.
(e) Increased awareness: By conducting workshops and training programmes, business enterprises must make an effort to spread awareness among its employees of the need to conserve the environment.
(f) Assessment programmes: An efficient mechanism for the periodic assessment of pollution control programmes may also be adopted, in order to weigh their costs and benefits.
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