Rethinking consumption; As consumers, we can play our part by thinking about our consumption habits and considering the impact of the products we buy, as more of us think about the impact of the choices we make on the environment and communities around the globe, the more power we've through our purchasing choices, this is the beat way for us to send messages to companies, industries, and governments, telling them that we support or reject certain corporate practices, we are all consumers
we need to eat, we need to work, and we need to travel but our challenge is to do this within the planet's capacity, we need to be more sustainable in the way we use these resource by preventing and reducing waste, being more efficient in the way we use resources and using renewable resources.
1.Reduce
by reducing the amount of stuffs we buy and use, we decrease the resources needed for manufacture, transportation and disposal, we also cause less impact to the environment where the raw materials originate.
2. Reuse
helps cut demand for the natural resources, save energy, reduces wastes, saves money, for example plastic bottles for planting tomatoes, vegetables around homes, instead of repackaging in some other plastic bag you can reuse the one you already have.
3. Recycle
conversion of used items into new products helps to save finite resources and protect natural habitats, it also requires less energy to make new products from used ones compared to raw materials, reduces the amount of wastes that goes into incineration and landfill sites which are the major emitters of methane, a green house gas that has more than 20 times more impact on climate change than carbon dioxide.
4. Replace: we can become more sustainable through replacing products such as reafforestation programme, a law can be put for any one tree cut you plant at least 10 more trees, this will help reduce on the number of trees cut every year, also more trees means more carbon dioxide used hence reduction on concentrations in the air. Trees have done us million favors by using the carbon dioxide we release every second we can't afford to lose them.
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