Enviromental Factors + Impacts

Question 1

Weather - Positive

Answer 1

A business could be impacted by spells of favourable weather, for example, during a prolonged periods of snow the ski industry in Scotland will see an increase in customers.

Question 2

Weather - Negative

Answer 2

Prolonged Spells of adverse weather, such as snow can affect the transport networks for deliveries of materials to arrive and for staff to get to work, therefore causing production to slow down or cease entirely.

Question 3

Recycling - Positive

Answer 3

Organisations encourage recycling by their customers in order to imoact less negatively on the enviroment. For example, retailers discourage the use of plastic bags and sell ‘bags for life’ which will lower the cost to the retailer of providing plastic bags and gain the company a favourable repuatation for being ‘enviremntally freindly’

Question 4

Recycling - Negative

Answer 4

Organisations need to undertake recycling, for example, of waste paper and printer cartridges, but it takes time , effort and money to recycle rather than just disposing of waste.

Question 5

Carbon Footprint - Negative

Answer 5

There is a financial cost associated with investing in reneqable energy, for example, solar panles or wind turbines to power factories.

Question 6

Carbon Footprint - Positive

Answer 6

Organisations are encouraged to reduce their carbon footprint. This means to lower the amount of emissions from fossil fuels released into the atmosphere. Businessses that do this, for example by utilising renewable energy, will eventually save moeny on fuel bills.