True Greatness
One decision we make on a daily basis is how we spend our "Hard Earned" cash?
- The point is to make the best decisions possible
- Make the choice to use less or make the decision to not use at all
- Be thoughtful to your purchases based on necessity or want
- Think critically how your decision can / will affect others
- Will your temporary and disposable purchase be recyclable, biodegradable, toxic?
- Western society has become accustom to cheap and disposable products.
- We expect a short life expectancy on our products and don't question where or how they were manufactured.
- Our society demands mass production, overwhelming amount of options and all within the confines of one structure [Walmart, Target, Kmart, Cosco, etc.]
- Western culture also creates this shadow of waste management. We have trash pick-up weekly or sometimes on a daily basis. We hear the vehicle [at best] and are completely blinded to the final destination.
- Seperate materials and resources are created around the globe
- Materials are transported to a destination for production and assembly
- They get formed
- Constructed
- Then packaged in a sulifane wrapper/ with a cardboard label/ with an adhesive [toxic most likely] sticker adhered to the outside/ put in another cardboard container/ sealed with an indestructible plastic/ grouped in medium box for displaying/ put into a larger box for transporting
- Then loaded on a truck
- Received at our local SUPER STORE
- Another vehicle moves the crate [which will probably be used only once]
- Packages are unloaded in the warehouse
- Then small SKU's are displayed front faced all pretty on the shelf
- Then comes the real disaster. We tear off the 7 layers of complete waste and dispose of them immediately after purchasing.
- We use the cheaply manufactured item(s) which will break or deteriorate within a year at best
- Discard in the trash
- Then back to the same store for another temporary solution
You have some decisions to make!