Cengage Advantage Books: Foundations of the Legal Environment of Business 3rd Edition by Marianne Jennings

Exercise 8

Grand Auto Parts Stores receives used automotive batteries from customers as trade-ins. Grand Auto drives a screwdriver through spent batteries and then sells them to Morris Kirk Sons, a batterycracking plant that extracts and smelts leads. Tons of crushed battery casings were found on Kirk's land. Which of the following statements is correct about the crushed battery casings?
A) Both Grand Auto and Kirk can be held liable for clean-up of the casings.
B) Only Kirk can be held liable for the clean-up of the casings.
C) Kirk can be held liable and Grand Auto, but only if it was aware of what Kirk was doing with the spent batteries.
D) Neither Kirk nor Grand Auto can be held liable for the clean-up because the casings are not considered solid waste.