ETHICS

ETHICS

• Habitat destroyed by the industrialisation of China
• Building of dams and pollution being leaked into the rivers due to chemicals
• 158 dolphins in 2003 being reduced to just 61 dolphins in 2012

• Minimum wage in Beijing is the equivalent to £1.66 an hour
• Lowest in Hubei with a minimum wage of £0.66 an hour
• UK has a minimum wage of £6.20
• This is why Nike have production in China

• Poor living and working conditions
• Low pay and child labour
• "Working hours per week averaged around 66-69 hours"
• UK working hours 36
• Foxconn, a production firm for Apple, has hourly wage of around 89p to £1.31

• Starbucks has reported no profit and paid no income tax on sales of £1.2 bn in the UK
• McDonalds has a tax bill of  over £80 million on £3.6 bn of UK sales
• Starbucks had a revenue of 73 million euros but declared a profit of only 507,000 euros
• Tax avoidance isn't illegal  but is frowned upon, unfair and unethical