How Do Small Businesses Affect the Global Environment?
How Do Small Businesses Affect the Global Environment? Wednesday October 17, 2007 #spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Environmental regulations usually focus on large businesses and whole industries, yet small businesses actually generate 60 percent of all commercial waste and cause half of all environmental damage worldwide, according to the European Environment Agency. A team of researchers from the University of Palermo in Italy, led by Maurizio Cellura, studied the amount of commercial waste and environmental damage related to producing a single bottle of red wine at Sicilys award-winning Milazzo winery. Saverio Lo Leggio, the owner of Milazzo, volunteered his winery for the two-year study, and he was surprised by the results. Photo courtesy of Karpati Gabor The Global Environmental Cost of Wine Producing one bottle of Terre della Baronia created more than a pound of waste and released 16 grams of sulfur dioxide into the air. Producing the 2004 vintage of 100
