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Business : a changing world
While the title of our book remains Business: A Changing World, we could have changed the title to Business: A Green World. Throughout the book we recognize the importance of sustainability and green business. Using the philosophy reduce, reuse, and recycle, we believe every business can be more profitable and contribute to a better world through green initiatives. The United States uses more than 100 billion plastic bags each year. Only 1 percent of these bags are recycled, while the rest end up in landfills. It takes an estimated 1,000 years for plastic bags to photo-degrade. Recycling just one aluminum can save enough energy to run a TV for three hours, or the energy equivalent of about a half-gallon of gasoline. There is no known limit to the number of times aluminum can be re-recycled. Furthermore, to produce each weeks Sunday papers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
Reducing carbon emissions has become the focal point of most reports on how to minimize global warming, and even emerging economies such
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