Ethical Issues of Tannery

Businesses
Name ID
Umme Habiba Prottasa 143 0130 030
Asma Sadia 133 0440 030
Shazida Islam Disha 1620547030
Maliha Binta Kabir 1611330030
Introduction
 Current situation
• Fast growing sector.
• Huge scope for foreign investment
• Employment Opportunities.
• Favourable local business environment
Continued
• Make all the factories fully operational
• Chemical discharge
• Pollutions
Situation
Ethical Issues of Tannery
Businesses
• They are the largest source of hazardous waste.
• Main ethical issue is the “Environmental Pollution”.
• River / water Pollution  By dumping waste into the
river.
• Soil/ Land pollution  Chemical ingredients
contaminate the soil.
• Employee/ Workers health issue  Working with
toxic elements.
• Poor working environment  No ventilation even the
light rarely comes within wall crack. Bad smell is
another reason.
Alternative Scenerios
 Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Who are the stakeholders?
Stakeholders are those who are directly or indirectly
affected by any business.

Internal Stakeholders  Investors, Managers,

Employees, Owners many more.

External Stakeholders  Government, Customers,

Suppliers, Local Neighborhood, society, creditors, etc.
 Assessing The Alternatives
Teleological Perspective
In Greek the word telos means goal, end and logos is science.
Teleology is result based ethics. Teleology
supports the end of an action. It concentrates on the outcome of an
action rather than the action itself.

Tannery industriy falls under consequentialist view of teleological

ethics. One is egoism and the other is utilitarianism. Tannery
industry have to decide whether they want to maximize their profit
and follow egoism or they want to benefit maximum people by
following utilitarianism.
 Assessing The Alternatives
Deontological Perspective
Deontology came from the Greek work “Does”. If the
action is right or wrong it will decide is it ethical or not.
Doesn’t care about the consequences.
At this aspect, “First Alternative scenario” which is
“Strict regulations and obligations” better than Second
Scenario (Punishment and fines).
 Recommended Actions
• Relocation of the industries from Hazaribagh area to Savar or other region which
are located far from the city.
• The workers should be wearing goggles , safety boots and gloves while working.
• They should be given training on how to operate the work while using chemical by
taking precautions and necessity steps.
• Well-equipped laboratory and proper infrastructure with good transportation system
should be established .
• Introducing solid waste management system, a salt treatment facility, Chromium
separator, water refinery system and an industrial friendly estate.
• Introducing CETP (The central effluent treatment plant ) at the industrial zone.
 Practical Constraints
 Poor working environment.
 Lack of skilled and trained workers.
 Environmental pollution.
 Health risk of the employees.
 Lack of latest technology.
 Difficulty in importing expensive materials and
chemicals.
 Conclusion
• Leather industry is one of the biggest industries in Bangladesh but it
is not that much efficient. If we can increase the number of exports
by rearranging some factors, then we can also become more
efficient. Right now we don’t have access to better technologies and
necessary raw materials. The working environment is also not up to
the mark. Environment is being polluted by the chemical wastages
of our tannery industries. We have to work hard to make this
negative sides disappear. For that we have to work really hard. We
have to increase the quality of our products up to the standard. By
doing these we can make our leather industry one of the most
largest and efficient industries.