Kefala Anna and Romano Cristina

Waste Management in Large Corporations:
Reality vs. Rhetoric

Kefala Anna and Romano Cristina

Abstract:
In the past years, environmental challenges have become too important to ignore. Businesses are affected by environmental issues and this has been reflected in the formulation of environmental policies. The aim of this paper is to examine the waste management strategies of large corporations as part of these environmental policies and to identify whether their implementation has had any financial implications.

The design, conduct and analysis of the results of the case studies in this research have enabled an in-depth investigation through extensive interviews and resulting in multi-perspective conclusions. For all the companies observed environmental issues have been part of their policy for a few years now. Companies were purposefully selected on the basis of the monitored data obtained from environmental management systems. Companies interviewed belong to different sectors, thus offering a wide overview of the issue.

The fact that all companies seem to have experienced financial benefits makes waste management a promising business feature as part of the environmental agenda in which businesses of any size can invest as a step closer to sustainability.

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