Thinking Outside of the Box

My vision is a future where companies invest in technology for water recycling because the outcome of it outweighs the initial financial cost. My values are that individuals and companies need motive to make a difference and that motive does not always have to be a reward, but can be fear of a disadvantage or penalization. There needs to be a change in legislation to encourage these companies to actually invest largely in these technologies which sometimes can cost the company a fortune. I believe The Extended Producer Responsibility legislation is a great starting point for my intervention since this rewards companies for not creating water waste and pollution. However, my intervention would be to turn this around and penalize companies that do not participate in preventing water pollution. The penalization would most likely have to be something financial such as taking more environmental tax since this is usually what hits the company the hardest. This may cause an uprise from the companies since they are stakeholders. However, it also motivates them to invest more in tec