1.0 Background of study
Environment is being degraded by the activities undertaken by companies. Hence, it becomes the responsibility of the business world to compensate for the harm that the companies are causing to the environment. The past decade is witness to the rapid economic growth through increasing consumers’ consumption worldwide. This is turn cause environmental deterioration through over-consumption and utilization of natural resources. However, environment problems are caused directly or indirectly by the patterns of production of industries, and pattern of consumption and behavior of consumers (Tsen et al., 2006). The impact of environment deterioration will be a plenty of environment pollution such as pollution of sea and rivers, noise and light pollution, global warming, air pollution, soil pollution and so forth.
The concern for environmental protection is increasing around the globe. It also causes degradation of fertility and threat on human population.