Interface has met with great success in their efforts. This has been, in part, because of a concerted cultural effort across the company from the production floor to the c-suite executives. Arguably, however, not all industry can follow in Interface's footsteps. Some products are used up or destroyed, and other industries don't yet possess the technology to economically reuse their products in the way Interface does. Such industries include oil and gas, minerals and special metals, chemical plants, and even some plastics manufacturing companies are incapable of recycling. Much of what companies in these industries are doing is simply non-renewable. Keep in mind the maxim of Aldo Leopold "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise" and then respond to the following prompts:

• Is it unethical for a business to engage in practices to meet the needs of the current population if it will knowingly deprive future populations of opportunity and resources? Explicate your reasoning using material from the course.
• Ray Anderson believed there was an ethical imperative for businesses to adopt sustainability practices. Is he right, and if so, to what degree? If no, then why not?
• Where, if at all, do the rights of nature (the rest of the natural world besides us) figure into these decisions?