Convenience

References:
Hewlett-Packard, “HP Planet Partners Recy-
cling,” “United States—Computer Hardware Recycling,”
“Product Reuse and Recycling,” “Environmental, Health and
Safety Policy,” www.hp.com, accessed on July 30, 2013;
Sarah Meyer, “How HP Does Green: Recycling Facility
Tour,”
PrinterComparison.com
, www.printercomparison.
com, accessed on July 30, 2013; Cora Nucci, “Inside HP’s
Ink Jet Cartridge Recycling Process,”
InformationWeek
,
www.informationweek.com, accessed on July 30, 2013;
Keith Kmetz,
HP Shows Off Another Phase of Its “Closed
Loop” Inkjet Cartridge Recycling Process with a Tour of the
Lavergne Group Facility
(Framingham, MA: IDC, April 2010),
www.hp.com, accessed on July 30, 2013; and Jim Mota-
valli, “See How Printer Cartridges Are Recycled,”
The
Daily
Green
,
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/
green-living/the-daily-green, accessed on July 30, 2013.
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Finally,
philanthropic giving
is the awarding of funds or gifts to charities or other
worthy causes. Target routinely gives a share of pretax income to charity and social
programs. Omaha Steaks gives more than $100,000 per year to support the arts.
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Giving across national boundaries is also becoming more common. For example, Alcoa
gave $112,000 to a small town in Brazil to build a sewage treatment plant. And Japanese
firms such as Sony and Mitsubishi make contributions to many social programs in the
United States. However, in the current climate of cutbacks, many corporations have also
had to limit their charitable gifts over the past several years as they continue to trim their
own budgets.
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And many firms that continue to make contributions are increasingly
targeting them to programs or areas where the firm will get something in return. For
example, firms today are more likely than they were a few years ago to give money to
job-training programs rather than to the arts. The logic is that they get a more direct
payoff from the former type of contribution—in this instance, a better-trained workforce
from which to hire new employees.
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And, indeed, corporate donations to arts programs
declined 5 percent between 2003 and 2008, declined further during the recession, and
have generally remained flat since the economic recovery started in 2012.