Business, 09.04.2021 01:40 emily200705

Swedish furniture giant IKEA reported sales of $44 billion in 2019. The company turned a profit by recycling waste into some of its best-selling products. Before, this waste had cost the company more than $1 million per year. And the company is well on its way to "zero waste to landfill" worldwide. According to Joanna Yarrow, IKEA’s head of sustainability for the United Kingdom, "We don’t do this because we’re tree huggers, we do this because it’s very cost-effective." This passage best represents which of the following frameworks below? A. the balance scorecard framework
B. the PESTEL framework
C. the triple-bottom-line framework
D. the economic value framework

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