The cost of no corporate responsibility

Christopher Marquis, Sinyi Professor of Management at the University of Cambridge, tells us that by letting corporations off easy by placing the sustainability onus on consumers, like with consumers being the center of most recycling campaigns, we are creating a situation where avoiding corporate responsibility creates larger rewards. “In the 1950s, plastic producers and the packaging industry coined the term “litterbug” as part of their efforts to overturn state laws that mandated the use of returnable glass bottles.”

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