Many businesses insist that providing funds for community development has nothing to do with restitution for pollution and is only a way of making up for local inconveniences and building good feelings with the public to further communications. But the rise of the practice, besides cheering environmentalists that environmental consciousness is spreading, also has them worried.
雖然許多企業堅稱，提供回饋基金和汙染補償無關，只是對地方造成的各種不便，如焚化廠旁會有許多垃圾車通過，發電廠影響地方開發… … 的彌補，並和地方建立情感，以利溝通的方式。