http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-29012713

In recent years, it is not uncommon to see that some companies tend to make short-term profit at the cost of the whole environment. Pollution and waste are two obvious examples. By pouring effluent directly into the sea or lakes, a company may save millions of dollars which should have been spent to construct environment protection system. In terms of business ethics, those firms fail to obey the social rules and increase profit in a legal and justified way because they take law and morality for granted and focus merely on their own interest. As far as I am concerned, companies are not necessarily responsible to contribute to improving the environment, but they should at least bear in mind that the bottom line is not to pollute and damage the ecological environment for the sake of their own good. Maximizing the profit is a jointly goal of all existing corporations but it is not an excuse for destroying the environment. Also, a waste of resources such as water and trees is unforgivable. For one thing, those resources are public property, which is shared by the society as a whole. For another, the wasting phenomenon means the company doesn’t take its social responsibility and fails to use those resources to the fullest. To tackle the problems, corporations are expected make some changes such as introducing new technology to prevent these problems from happening again.