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- 1. How can you regain control of your world through your
consumerism?Presented by Lizette Smook Managing Director
InnovAsians Ltd.
2.
- Consumer wastage cause and affect
- Consumer wastage and consumer health
- The base for a shift already exists
Agenda 3.
- Consumer wastage cause and affect
- Consumer wastage and consumer health
- The base for a shift already exists
Agenda 4.
- In 1955, economist Victor Lebow stated (as quoted by Rees,
2009):
- "Our enormously productive economy demands that we make
consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of
goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction and our
ego satisfaction in consumption. We need things consumed, burned
up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever-increasing
rate".
DEFINED www.wikipidia.com 5.
- Consumer wastage cause and affect
- Consumer wastage and consumer health
- The base for a shift already exists
Agenda 6. SUMMERIZED http://www.storyofstuff.com/ 7.
- Consumer wastage cause and affect
- Consumer wastage and consumer health
- The base for a shift already exists
Agenda 8.
- 85,000,000 plastic bottles used every 3 minutes(National
Geographic)
- 260,000,000 tons of plastic produced per year only approx 5%
gets recycled
- 2,000 times more energy is needed to make/ship bottled water
than tap water
WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR WORLD? www.kaiseiproject.org 9.
- In 1997, the average woman bought 19 items of clothing a year,
this has risen to 34 items
- 1.9m tonnes of textiles were disposed of in 2005 in the
UK.
- 1.2m tonnes went into the rubbish bin
- 100 000 yards of fabric /cutting room in China on average with
20% wastage
- The avarage American throw away 68 lbs. of textiles every
year
CONSUMER WASTE www.just-style.com 10.
- 12% of purchased products are never used and discarded.
- 97% of respondents were pleased with the performance of
recycled content products.
- Buy Recycled Business Alliance
InnovAsians Ltd. Hong Kong. All rights reserved ENVIRONMENT 11.
FACTS ON PLASTIC 12. THE LAND 13. OUR OCEANS www.projectkaisei.org
14. THE AIR 15.
- Consumer wastage cause and affect
- Consumer wastage and consumer health
- The base for a shift already exists
Agenda 16.
- It has been estimated that up to one sixth of all child
fatalities and disease can be attributed to environmental
factors.
- Health European Commission
- 82% of surveyed landfills had leaks.
- People living near solid waste landfills where gas is escaping
have a four-fold increased chance of bladder cancer or
leukemia.
- New York State Department of Health
InnovAsians Ltd. Hong Kong. All rights reserved ENVIRONMENT
17.
- Air Pollution, Heart Disease and Stroke Exposure to air
pollution contributes to the development of cardiovascular diseases
(heart disease and stroke).
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4419
DISEASE 18.
- Nine different pollutants have been "verified" to cause asthma
- including four from car exhausts. Testicular atrophy is caused by
oestrogen, increasingly found in British rivers that supply
drinking water. Mercury poisoning can cause cerebral palsy, while
more than 50 pollutants - ranging from dioxins to PCBs - have been
shown to cause cancer. Other effects include: kidney disease, heart
disease, hypertension, diabetes, dermatitis bronchitis,
hyperactivity, deafness, sperm damage and Alzheimer's and
Parkinson's diseases.
http://www.eurocbc.org/pollutio_linked_to_200_diseases_14nov2004page1774.html
DISEASE 19.
- Consumer wastage cause and affect
- Consumer wastage and consumer health
- The base for a shift already exists
Agenda 20.
- Conscious living (air con, water, etc)
SHIFT NEEDED 21. Organic cottonHemp Wool Seacell ALTERNATIVES
ALTERNATE TEXTILES 22. Soy silk Bamboo Corn fiberRecycled PET
(water bottels) ALTERNATIVES ALTERNATE TEXTILES 23. CORNSTARCH
ALTERNATE PLASTICS 24. RICE HUSK REPLACE MELAMINE SUSTAINABLE
REPLACEMENT FOR MELAMINE 25. BEGASSE AND BAMBOO ALTERNATE FOR
DISPOSABLES E.G.POLYSTYRENE 26. TIME ENCODED PP/Pe PP WITH
TIME-ENCODING 1-2 YEAR LIFE SPAN 27. REDUCING THE ENVIRONMENTAL
FOOTPRINTE LEATHER 28.
- Consumer wastage cause and affect
- Consumer wastage and consumer health
- The base for a shift already exists
Agenda 29.
- Crisis-Oriented Environmental Management:Environmental
management hampers business performance. Businesses should not
cooperate with the government or anyone else who detracts from the
purpose of business: to make money
- Cost-Oriented Environmental Management:Environmental
regulations are a cost of doing business, nothing more
ANTI - PARADIGMS 30.
- Consumer wastage cause and affect
- Consumer wastage and consumer health
- The base for a shift already exists
Agenda 31. Source:Global Lifestyle Monitor IV The majority of
global consumers will pay more for clothes made from natural fibers
such as cotton. CLOTHING AND FIBRE 32.
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- LOHAS describes a > $209 billion U.S. marketplace for goods
and services that appeal to consumers who value health, the
environment, social justice, personal development and sustainable
living.
- Originally identified by co-research conducted by Conscious
Wave and The Natural Marketing Institute in 2000. Within the LOHAS
market divisions are products and services that:
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- Improve health and safeguard eco-systems
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- Reduce the use of natural resources
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- Purchases created or conducted in socially
THERE IS A CHANGE IN CONSUMERS 33.
- 97% of respondents were pleased with the performance of
recycled content products.
- Buy Recycled Business Alliance
FACTS 34. SURVEY www.pricegrabber.com 35. Thank you