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1. Assure commitment from top management for an organizational culture of ethicality related to e-waste management throughout its lifecycle (i.e. electronics manufacturing, organizational use, reuse/recycling and disposal); 2. Construct a written code of standards for behavior related to e-waste management; 3. Communicate the standards of conduct related to e-waste management effectively throughout the organization (and the industry); 4. Conduct ongoing training and education programs with respect to business ethics, sustainability, and corporate responsibility as they relate to e-waste; 5. Designate a compliance officer with clear responsibility for enforcing the e-waste standards to include ensuring that the organization regularly conducts an e-waste management audit; 6. Establish a process for reporting violations of the standards of conduct; 7. Maintain confidentiality and ‘whistle blower’ protection; 8. Actively investigate all reported violations regarding disposal of e-waste—in short, aggressively track the e-waste once it moves beyond the organization; 9. Ensure effective enforcement, compliance, and e-waste oversight programs; 10. Ensure due diligence and active investigation by the organization’s board of directors (and industry leaders) related to e-waste management; 11. Monitor and audit electronic waste transactions; and 12. Attend carefully to the law and make certain that all e-waste actions, policies, and procedures are conducted lawfully and according to accepted industry and global standards.

Sauser states that he believes that through these 12 best e-waste practices green solutions, most employees who have adopted them have supported them, which means that ethics is a core component to the issue. By carefully critiquing each industries system to best fit it standards and meet green requirements, it is not only profitable, but sustainable. One weakness found during the discovery of this fact was how the information was aimed at every industry and its very unrealistic that the set of broad objectives will sufficiently represent what every industry should actually be specifically accomplishing. A more in-depth analysis for every industry sector would be required to build upon this possible green solution for consumers and business in the economic sector.

Conclusion

This article has shed light on the potential raise to not only raise awareness but make an environmentally difference. By understanding that employees of industrial corporations support the green changes it becomes abundantly obvious that it is an ethical issue, between making money and the environment, as well as simply corporate greed. Through two potential solutions one aimed at consumer and the other at corporate executive serious changes can be made as well as both parties being sufficiently satisfied with the outcome results.