Plastics have long been considered useful, providing such economic advantages as reduced cost and social benefits like increased hygiene and the preservation of food. However, plastic products have greatly contributed to climate change. Half of all plastic produced is single use. The discarded plastics are dumped into landfills and find their way into bodies of water, causing serious environmental pollution and health hazards. Addressing this paradoxical situation, Socially Responsible Plastic answers the question: can using plastic ever be socially responsible?
While humanity is threatened by the environmental pollution caused by plastic, some countries are implementing and accepting environmentally friendly behaviour, while others are still falling behind. More specifically, adopting environmentally friendly behaviour is still in its infancy in developing nations. The authors look at socially responsible plastic in countries ranging from China, Malaysia, Pakistan, Spain, Australia and India to Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Bangladesh, with research covering tourism, waste management, the food and drink industry, and the possible advantages of responsible plastic use.
Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility offers the latest research on topical issues by international experts and has practical relevance to business managers.
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David Crowther is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility who previously worked in government and industry for twenty years, a career culminating in his role as divisional managing director of a multinational. In 2002 he established the Social Responsibility Research Network, an international body which now has several thousand members. His current research focuses on sustainability and governance in the modern environment.
Farzana Quoquab is an Associate Professor at Azman Hashim International Business School, Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia. She is a prolific case writer and an active researcher in the field of sustainability marketing, social marketing, marketing ethics, and corporate social responsibility.
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Social Responsibility Research Network, UK
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Chapter 1. The dilemma of plastic; David Crowther and Farzana Quoquab
Chapter 2. Plastic pollution in the tourism sector: documenting its present research status; Zhang Jiale and Farzana Quoquab
Chapter 3. The social rendition of plastic waste management initiatives in India; Harleen Sahni, Nupur Chopra, and Priti Gadhavi
Chapter 4. Challenges of reducing polythene and plastic in Sri Lanka: A case study of attanagalla secretariat division; G. P. T. S. Hemakumara and T. G. Shamal Madhusankha
Chapter 5. As food delivery Business skyrocketing, so is our environmental disaster; William Loh Wui Lun and Farzana Quoquab
Chapter 6. Plastic waste pollution in the nigerian tourism sector - who is responsible?; Tosin Tiamiyu
Chapter 7. Changing landscape of plastic waste management in India; Sanil S. Hishan
Chapter 8. Reducing plastic pollution using norms perspective: Integration of moral position and place attachment; Abdul Haseeb Chaudhary, Michael Jay Polonsky, and Nicholas McClaren
Chapter 9. Social marketers' contribution to implementing successful retail plastic bag bans; Anne Sharp, Meagan Wheeler, and Marcia Kreinhold
Chapter 10. Plastic waste - can it be the undiscovered gold of Bangladesh?; Asif Mahmood, Sharlin Mahmood, and Shah Saquib
Chapter 11. The Plastification of Minds; Pedro Antonio Martin Cervantes and Maria del Carmen Valls Martinez
Chapter 12. Social responsibility and plastic; David Crowther
