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Environmental Record

The clean up GlaxoSmithKline has had environmental impact and has motivated the company to try to protect its reputation as an environmental leader. That has meant trying to prevent problems from happening, rather than just responding to one. These days, for example, a team of scientists assesses the "total lifecycle impact" of each drug that GlaxoSmithKline produces. They measure everything from waste produced during manufacturing to the amount of residual chemicals that patients who take the drugs excrete. Like its patients, its sales people drive millions of miles a year as they visit doctors' offices. The company has begun to ponder whether it can sell drugs and communicate with physicians in more efficient ways this is another example of GlaxoSmithKline seeking ways to better our environment.

Environmental Record

Fedex has been harming people that live by their runways. There have been noise complaints after noise complaints that state fedex runways are doing harm to the people for them. People are not getting there right amount of sleep with planes coming in to the airport every 2 hours and leaving right away or not leaving for 3 hours or so. Fedex has not been doing there job in helping our environment. Every month Fedex sends 2 pages of invoice with 30-50 parcel of detail within the document. A 2 page document is even sent if there is only 1 parcell of detail on them. Fedex also sends out 8 copies of these invoices when only two are needed, one for the reciever and one for Fedex. This is a big waste to paper which can lead to more cutting down of our trees.

Enviormental Record

Merck & Co used methylene chloride which was an animal carcinogen and according to the Federal Environmental Protection Agency was on the lists of pollutants. To get rid of this problem Merck chemists and enginners discovered a new way to manufactor chemistry without using methylene chloride. The new way of creating chemicals seemed to have fewer environmental effects. Merck has also changed its equipment to help better the environment. Merck installed a computerized ditributed control system that helped with the process of operations by 50 percent and it ran chemical reaction steps more effictively. With the new machines they elimated the disposal and storage of harmful waste. The biological oxygen demand was reduce by 75% with the new process to help with water waste and polluted waste.