Stricycle, Inc. Case Summary

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STERICYCLE, Inc.
The company stericycle specializes in collecting and disposing regulated substances, such as medical waste and sharps, pharmaceutıcals, hazardous waste, and providing services for recalled and expired goods. It was founded in 1989 and is headquatered in Lake Forest, Illinois, with many more bases of operation around the world, including toxic waste incinerators in Utah and North Carolina.

CASE
Medical waste Giants Stericycle Responsible for illegal Dumping of Aborted Babies in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas – The Campaign to Stop Stericycle (CSS) has discovered that the medicinal waste goliath Stericycle has been fined over $42,000 for the unlawful dumping of prematurely ended infants gathered from a fetus removal office in Austin. The
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And at the end they were fined with a sum of $17, 430 which is almost about less than half of what was fined against Stericycle.
Stericycle was again an accomplice of a notorious and a criminal abortonist but they got off the hook and was reated differently than how the abortonist was sentennced.

ETHICAL BEHAVIOR
Stericycle has been ignoring laws and regulations and continued to harm the environment and possibly people and animals which by these acts i think they should have been fined way more than just $42, 612.
Stericycle is a renowned and a big company, they shouldnt have done any of such acts and now it has cost them their reputation and they will lose potential clients aswell
If i was among the directors of Stericycle or lets say a manager, ı would consider the matters very carefully and find out who among the staff is responsible and fire hım or her and try as much as possible to not let the outside knows or any invetigators. But if it was already beyond my control i would report all those who are responsible and accept any punishment or fine that is given on the

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