Styrofoam is everywhere--- at home‚ in school canteens‚ fast food chains‚ factories‚ offices‚ shipping ports‚ buildings and manufacturing companies. Every time you’ll eat Jolly Spaghetti or even drink hot or cold water in water dispensers‚ we can see Styrofoam. But did you ever know that the term “Styrofoam” is a proper noun? It is the trademark of Dow Chemical Company for their invention of a closed-cell extruded polystyrene foam ‚ or Styrofoam‚ used for craft and construction applications‚ packaging
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industrial catastrophes. It occurred on the night of the last year of 1984 at the Bhopal Union Carbide Corporation (Union Carbide India Limited – UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal‚ Madhya Pradesh‚ India. A leak of methyl isocyanides gas and other chemicals from the plant resulted in the exposure of hundreds of thousands of people. It also causes environmental issues such as pollution of soil and water. The gas leak in India was caused by bad maintenance and failure of several safety systems to cut
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channels‚ and designing the advertising and promotional materials for industrial companies that have developed ”off-shoot” consumer products. You obviously serve a very specific niche. Your clients are industrial companies- that is‚ they sell primarily to other manufacturing firms and government agencies- that have developed- as unintended outcomes of their R&D programs- products for the retail trade. Dow Chemical Company‚ while not a client of your agency‚ is an almost ideal example of this type
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the forward looking statements. Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from those in the forward looking statements is contained in the Securities and Exchange Commission filings on the Company and at the end of this presentation. © 2013 Corning Incorporated 2 1 Enabling healthier lives Environmental Technologies Life Sciences Emissions-control solutions Research & bioprocessing solutions © 2013 Corning Incorporated
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A Reaction of the Bhopal Case This reaction paper is based on the ethics case: Bhopal-Union Carbide. First‚ I discuss an overview of the case. Second‚ I relate the case to principles discussed in class. Third‚ I evaluate the various points raised in class and present my point of view. Overview of the case In December 1984‚ the pesticide producing plant‚ Union Carbide‚ leaked methyl isocyanate gas in Bhopal‚ India. A substance that accidently entered the methyl isocyanate storage unit caused the
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Case 3: The Grayson Chemical Company The Company The Grayson Chemical Co. manufactured industrial chemicals for sale to other industrial companies. The company was about 40 years old and had been run by a stable management under only two presidents. Within the past few years‚ however‚ declining earnings and sales had brought pressure from the board of directors‚ investment bankers‚ and stockholder groups to name a new president. The company had grown increasingly stagnant – although at Grayson
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Law is due to the fact that this involves a large-scale environmental pollution accident and the legal difficulties in international prosecution laws‚ extradition treaties and non-uniform regulations across countries which could be exploited by companies. This paper‚ as the title suggests examines the social‚ environmental‚ legal and economic aspects of this evolving tragedy. History of the Accident However tragic the circumstances turned out to be‚ the opening of the pesticide plant in Bhopal was
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Pollution is one of the main problems the world faces today. One of the reasons is the overload of non-biodegradable objects like plastics‚ cans and Styrofoam. The invention of plastics and Styrofoam made a huge change in our society and it helped us in many ways. But it is also one of the main pollutants that destroy our planet. Because of these we devised a way to recycle used Styrofoam‚ and this is to make glue out of it. This glue can help reduce the number of Styrofoam
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Ethics of Penn Square and Dow Corning Ethics of Penn Square Bank and the Dow Corning Bankruptcy Penn Square Bank: What were the ethical pressures on the firm concerning documentation‚ credit extension‚ and revenue recognition that lead to the final collapse? What should have been done to reduce or offset these pressures? Penn Square Bank was a small commercial bank in Oklahoma City which made high-risk financial loans during the late 1970s in the oil boom. The bank ultimately collapsed
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were not afforded the same luxury. This double standard was mainly due to the Indian managers ’ intellectual cowardice and conformity. They did not want to “cause a panic” by setting these precautions in place for the local populace. The parent company‚ Union Carbide‚ also exhibited socio-centric thinking. They were concerned for their own profit margins at the expense of the safety of their workers and the people who lived in the shanty-town around the plant. The management in the plant also exhibited
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