environment

• • Environmental legislation aims to hold businesses responsible for their environmental impact
• Legislation covers areas including

  • Pollution
  • Destruction of wildlife
  • Traffic congestion
  • Air quality
  • Resource depletion
• • Businesses that fail to adhere to these laws may be fined or forced to cease commercial activity until they resolve problems they have caused
• waste electrical and electronic equipment forces businesses to increase recycling of waste of eletrical things
• landfill tax( 1996)- reduce the amount of waste being dumped