You’re an engineering student on an industrial placement year at a company that manufactures cosmetics. The company is involved in a big project that focuses on alternative, more environmentally friendly cosmetic chemistries. You notice that a batch of products might have been contaminated with microplastics. You flag this up to your supervisor but they wave your concerns away. What do you do?
You’re an engineering student on an industrial placement year at a company that manufactures cosmetics. The company isThis is the dilemma presented in our Engineering Ethics Toolkit case study Microplastics in cosmetics.
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