The story of stuff
Extraction: Take down tress, 80% forest are gone, 2000 trees are cut down a minute, Trashes the planet.
Production : Communities are being ruined and are bad, Too many toxic chemicals in the stuff we buy and waste, exposed to 100,000 chemicals, Produce Dioxin ! Distribution: Selling all the junk as fast as possible, 99% of stuff made is thrown away within 6 months, Externalized Cost: When certain value is put on a product and in the making it is not shown with the product. |
Consumption:We are nation consumers , We always throw away stuff that are valuable !, we consume 20% more than ever
Disposal: Throw away what is still valuable, throw away waste of 4.5 lbs a day, landfills are burned, worst toxin made by man kind is Dioxin which we are exposed to a lot and put in everything. Reflection: There is five steps in which stuff go through. We tend to only see the five steps but we don't see the impact these 5 steps have on everyone. Before reviewing on that we have to know that the 5 steps are not a cycle but are a singular line and this line affects a lot. First of all in the first step we hurt people we take the land to make these products. In the second step we burn and make tons of stuff that we sometimes don't even use all the time and these people n factories are exposed to bad toxins. The third step consist of selling all this junk that is just thrown away i not bought. Is this fair? Is this what we want to do all our lives? The fourth step is us where we take it home. We are known as the consumers we just take and take and don't give back and by the end it ends up in the trash which is the fifth step. This is endless its repetitive but we never go back in some way to help. We need to take this steps and just turn them around into a cycle of helping and recycling no just recycling but being cautious of what we buy and need. We need such as renewable energy a program to help protect these landfills and trees and the old way needs to re-modified. |