This document discusses responsible consumption and provides tips for practicing it. Some key points are:
- Responsible consumption considers the environmental and social impacts of products across their entire lifecycles from production to waste.
- When shopping, consider a product's ecological footprint, whether the company respects human rights and the environment, and the waste generated.
- Tips include avoiding single-use products, bringing reusable bags, choosing reusable containers, and recycling or reusing items before buying new ones.
- The "6 Rs" of responsible energy consumption are: rethinking needs, reusing items, restructuring systems to meet needs, reducing excess consumption, recycling, and reducing resource use for equitable access.
This document discusses responsible consumption and provides tips for practicing it. Some key points are:
- Responsible consumption considers the environmental and social impacts of products across their entire lifecycles from production to waste.
- When shopping, consider a product's ecological footprint, whether the company respects human rights and the environment, and the waste generated.
- Tips include avoiding single-use products, bringing reusable bags, choosing reusable containers, and recycling or reusing items before buying new ones.
- The "6 Rs" of responsible energy consumption are: rethinking needs, reusing items, restructuring systems to meet needs, reducing excess consumption, recycling, and reducing resource use for equitable access.
This document discusses responsible consumption and provides tips for practicing it. Some key points are:
- Responsible consumption considers the environmental and social impacts of products across their entire lifecycles from production to waste.
- When shopping, consider a product's ecological footprint, whether the company respects human rights and the environment, and the waste generated.
- Tips include avoiding single-use products, bringing reusable bags, choosing reusable containers, and recycling or reusing items before buying new ones.
- The "6 Rs" of responsible energy consumption are: rethinking needs, reusing items, restructuring systems to meet needs, reducing excess consumption, recycling, and reducing resource use for equitable access.
This document discusses responsible consumption and provides tips for practicing it. Some key points are:
- Responsible consumption considers the environmental and social impacts of products across their entire lifecycles from production to waste.
- When shopping, consider a product's ecological footprint, whether the company respects human rights and the environment, and the waste generated.
- Tips include avoiding single-use products, bringing reusable bags, choosing reusable containers, and recycling or reusing items before buying new ones.
- The "6 Rs" of responsible energy consumption are: rethinking needs, reusing items, restructuring systems to meet needs, reducing excess consumption, recycling, and reducing resource use for equitable access.
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conservation of the environment and equality Social. • Ensure the quality of the purchased
Some of the points to consider in TIPS FOR RESPONSIBLE USE
responsible consumption are: Before buying something, think • Consider the environmental impact carefully about whether you from the point of view of the life really need to buy it or if you are By: Silva Navarro Ayly cycle of the product to be only being guided by advertising. Now that Christmas is approaching, it purchased, valuing the production, If you decide to buy something, is one of the times of the year that transport, distribution, consumption find out what raw material is we spend the most, so it is and waste processes that the manufactured in which way its convenient to know that it is product leaves. manufacturing process impacts necessary to practice responsible the environment and if it • Determine the ecological footprint consumption. generates any social harm or that certain lifestyle and injustice. BUT… consumerism produce. Also consider what impact the … WHAT IS RESPONSIBLE • Determine which companies, use of what you intend to buy CONSUMPTION? products and services respect the has on the environment and the environment and human rights to social environment. Responsible consumption is a concept Every time you buy something, prefer them over others that do not advocated by ecological, social and meet the aforementioned you should also consider the political organizations that believe that requirements. impact caused by the waste and human beings would do well to change the garbage it generates. their consumption habits by adjusting Avoid "use and throw away" storing food in plastic and 5. RECYCL E to return to the products, if not strictly aluminum. material cycle once its useful life necessary. Prioritize products with is over. Reject the plastic bags they give returnable or reusable 6. REDUCE because we all have the in supermarkets and shops. If containers. right to equitable proportions of you can, when making the resources, and the planet has the BEFORE YOU BUY, THINK purchase, take your own bags of capacity to satisfy us. cloth, paper, cardboard or even If the 3 Rs are important in those of plastic used previously recycling, 6 Rs are required in energy until they are unusable. consumption. Buy the content and not the container. Many times you pay WHAT ARE THE 6R? more for everything that 1. REPENSE our way of life, involves the manufacture and differentiate our basic needs disposal of the wrappings, which from the expendable. are thrown directly into the 2. REUSING that is, lengthening, trash, than for the content. from its design to its use, the Recycle before buying, many of useful life of the materials. the things that are to be thrown 3. RESTRUCTURING the economic away can be reused in other ways system so that, instead of and ways, use your imagination! producing superfluous goods, it Avoid cans and heavily packaged concentrates on satisfying products. Lunch boxes and glass people's needs. jars are a greener way than 4. REDUCE excessive consumption