How do eco-friendly products help the environment?
I’m writing a paper on how eco-friendly products such as household cleaners are beneficial for the environment, but I’m running out of good resourses, as well as good explanations to back up my thesis. Can someone help? Thank you
When you say eco-friendly, just how are your suggsted products eco-friendly? Does the production process use fewer resources and/or preduce fewer contaminates? Is the product its self and/or its container healthier for humans? Is its packaging, marketing, and transport to market contaminate free(er) and/or use fewer resources? Does its use result in the use of fewer resouces and/or the generation of fewer contaminates?
When speaking of house hold and other cleaning products…we tend to immediately think of product components and chemicals. I would suggest that you do a search on "dirty dizen chemicals". There is a list of 12 chemicals that are considered the "world’s worst" on the environment. A number are routinely found in various cleaning agents. In using the above search critieria, you will find folks touting thier eco-friendly products including which chemicals they do not use; this will give you a clue as to which types of traditional cleaning products do use these chemicals and which chemicals. Also, a whole host of other information about these chemicals.
Eco friendly products reduce pollution, pollution kills plants, animals. Eco products backs down more quickly into basic elements that plants can use, animals eat the plants and we eat the animals. It re-instates the basic food change.
I have a hard time believing you are actually running out of resources when you have access to the internet, my dear. Start here to get some ideas for further research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentally_friendly
You can research the various labels that are menitoned there; certainly don’t cite Wikipedia in your paper, but use it to find reliable sources. For example, I clicked on the UK’s Eco-label on the wikipedia page, which brought me here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-label and from there it would be wise to investigate the actual website ( http://www.ecolabelling.org/ ) as well as other sites that include critiques of the label. There are plenty of them out there–as a conservation student, I know I have done more than my fair share of critiquing things like "green" labels.
Hope I was helpful in giving you more to work with. I am trying to more useful than just giving you answers to your homework, because learning how to do proper research is probably part of the objective of your assignment.