Sustainability Research

The company I did my research on is Flowserve, which is one of the world's leading providers of pumps and services. Flowserve has a program called the Bay Day, where the employees and their families gather at the Flowserve Chespaeake Bay facility, and collect litter from 415 miles of shorelines and waterways of the Chesapeake Bay. In 2010, the volunteers and boaters collected 179,000 pounds of litter on the Bay Day. This program does not make any quantifying evidence of profits, because it is just a program where voluneteers sacrifice their own time and collect garbages that people dump along the bay. This program will absolutely affect me as a customer, because I consider myself as a green person; and when I see corporations are doing the same actions as me, it is more likely for me to purchase their products.