Environmental Impact

• Consumerism encourages people to buy and use goods, sometimes to the extent that their happiness depends on their accumulation of goods.
• Consumerism harms the environment as it creates large amount of waste while also depleting the planets resources and creating pollution through transport and manufacturing. Planned obsolescence is a bi-product of consumerism and accounts for a large amount of the waste produced.
• Sustainability is all about using the planets resources in a way that doesn't deplete them. This can be achieved through: planting trees as you cut them (sustainable forests), using renewable power, quotas to limit the amount of resources taken or used, and using recycled or recyclable materials.
• What are the three ways to help the environment in the design and manufacturing process?

  Reuse

  Recycle

  Efficiency