I knew that we have used
a lot of world resources but I did not realised until I watch the videos
that 1/3 of the natural resources in the world was being consumed because
we are using so much stuff.
In the video, Annie
Leonard tells us about five stages of live cycle of a product. Those five
stages are extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal. She
stated that those stages could affect people in bad ways. Some fact stories
made me realise that sometime people just doesn’t care about what they’re doing
and just keep doing it to make money. For example, Producer make product to be
useless as soon as possible so they can make new one and sell it to the
consumer. Consumer might not realised that from the production produce toxic
and pollution, so when there is a new product release they tend to change to
the new one although the old one still perfectly useful. Although ‘green
producers’ is already existed, a lot more company are just not interested to
how the product is going to be recycled. Recycling is the best way to save the
natural sources, even though recycling doesn’t get to the problem, but it is
helpful rather than burning the unused products that produce dioxin.
It is surprising to know
that every personal care products contain toxic, but not every ingredient is
dangerous for us. It’s daily lotions, shampoo and cosmetics, but also baby
products. We know that personal care products producers wanted to help us to
look good on the outside but they forget to worry about consumer’s health
impact. Although some of the products are responsible by selling save nontoxic
products, we as consumers do not know the full impact of the ingredient that
contain in the products we use.
As for the story of
electronics, Annie Leonard said that each year we make 25millions of e-waste
and the company tend to ‘Design for the Dump’. I realised how fast our
electronic technology growing. We can’t really blame the producers because of
that, the companies also need to earn for living. The thing that they shouldn’t
forget is our resources and waste. I feel that the producer is not essentially
produce a long lasting product but they need to mind the timing of their
release of new product and just keep updating the software. I think it might
give a big help to waste material rather than keep releasing new physical
product every time.
The next video is about
bottled water. I admit that I was a bottled water user in my country. It is not
because I don’t realise the effect of bottle waste, in some country we just
cant drink tap water as it can cause you stomach ache. Here in Australia I
started to use tap water even I bring my own bottle water everywhere I go as
I save more money and I noticed that it is not healthy to drink water that has
been in the bottle for a long time.
I agree with water
bottle boycott as it can help to reduce the waste and I don’t like the idea of
recycling water bottle as the grade of the bottle is decreasing it’s not good
for our body and it would be better if they can help some countries to provide
clean water so we can consume water directly from the tap. I think it’s a good
idea to provide a tap water filter to some area.
As a young designer I
think we should care more to our environment and should contribute to it so our
natural resources keep flowing. :)
