How do green products benefit the environment?
I have to write an essay on this topic, don’t really know what to say other than give statistics though. Any advice?
I have to write an essay on this topic, don’t really know what to say other than give statistics though. Any advice?
It depends on your definition of green. Too often as of late too many companies have marketed green products as a way to cash in on the psuedo-green desires of many consumers. Which would not be a bad thing, except that extra production means extra strain on the environment. Technically, the ultimate green choice would be to simply reduce.
However, there are green products out there that truly are better choices, such as those made of recyclable materials (that can even be recycled again) or are compostable, cruelty-free, reusable, or made with less resources.
Things that are recycled/recyclable are not taking original source resources/only using that resource once.
Things that are compostable will break down in your yard or bin without being needed to be hauled to the dump or even the recycling center. They are completely natural and easily returned to the earth.
Cruelty-free mean less reliance on animals for our testing. Using ingredients already proven to be safe also cuts down on research time, cost, and resources as well as being kind to our animal friends.
Reusable means just that. Anything that is reusable can be called green because resources are only used once but provide the same energy over and over again throughout their lifespan.
Things made with less unnecessary resources take less things to make, and thus less from the environment. That’s also less environmental waste at the end of their lifespan. Look for things with minimal packaging.
Another perk of green products is what it does for the consumer mindset. As I said earlier, lots of green marketing is something of a scam, but those that are legitimate in their cause get people thinking about what is best for the earth, which can start a chain reaction.
They use less energy, leading to less waste and pollution. The truth is that without a significant amount of people going vegan over the next few years, all the hybrid cars and energy saver washing machines won’t save us. Its called population and the numbers are staggering.
Switching to a vegan diet is the best way to save the planet.
Green products conserve scarce resources in some way. Using less energy to be produced or transported for sale than the products that are traditionally used for the same purpose is a benefit of some "green" products. Consuming less energy when they are in use, like CFLs instead of incandescent bulbs, is another benefit of a "green" product. Using a more easily renewable resource that doesn’t take as much of a toll on the land or doesn’t leave the soil as vulnerable to erosion, like bamboo instead of hardwood floor boards, is a benefit of a "green" product. By using a recycled material for something, less resource intensive mining and refining is needed, as in recycled vs. virgin aluminum. Some products create fewer pollutants, so conserve air in healthy condition, as woodstoves w/ a catalytic converter added to the exhaust chimney. Sending less fresh water out to sea and retaining more in an inland ecosystem, like low-flow toilets do, is another benefit of a green product.
Humans have densely populated the earth drawing on so many natural resources that it is unclear whether the planet will be able to continue to support anything but the most primitive life in the not-so-distant future. Green products by making fewer demands buy us time to find much more efficient ways of surviving and to accept that we must gain control over our population growth.
Essentially, green products benefit the environment by increasing the natural life cycles and chains established by nature. Green products are generally created with means that require less resource depletion. Therefore creating less harmful effects on all forms of life including humans. Many of the products that have been manufactured are simply not natural. Thus have produced mutated results. For example, engineered food (such as seafood, produce, and building materials) have chemicals in them that help generate these new, super products. Those chemicals have created adverse effects in all forms of life. Whereas, if products are nurtured in their natural environments and habitats, life forms are not being subjected to harmful chemicals (or other elements) that increase the Earth’s greenhouse gases, produces more allergy triggers, and other adverse reactions.
Most don’t do thing. Most just make a profit for someone.
This is not to say you cannot be "green," but do it to save yourself money. Buying something new that claims it is green is wasteful in itself. If you are not replacing something that is worn out, you are not really being green about it. In most cases it is more green to keep using something that is cleaned up and well tuned than it is to dispose of it in favor of something that took energy to construct and to ship.
Take your school books for example- how old are they? How often are they replaced? 2+2 is still 4, as it was 400 years in Newton’s time. History is dynamic, Science is modestly dynamic if you look at astronomy. Otherwise chemistry is still largely unchanged over the past 40 years, especially what is taught in schools.
Public schools are among the most wasteful because they use a method of budgeting that encourages wasteful spending, and just plain waste- if a budgeted amount of money for a given year is not spent, the department, or the school loses that amount of money from next years budget- therefore it often gets spent on useless things or items of limited value.
You could really open up a lot of eyes by writing on how green your school is not when it comes to their budgets.
They don’t. It’s just a marketing scam to get people to pay more for a product that isn’t as good as a "non green" product.
http://www.scambusters.org/greenscam.html
Green products conserve scarce resources in some way. Using less energy to be produced or transported for sale than the products that are traditionally used for the same purpose is a benefit of some "green" products. Consuming less energy when they are in use, like CFLs instead of incandescent bulbs, is another benefit of a "green" product. Using a more easily renewable resource that doesn’t take as much of a toll on the land or doesn’t leave the soil as vulnerable to erosion, like bamboo instead of hardwood floor boards, is a benefit of a "green" product. By using a recycled material for something, less resource intensive mining and refining is needed, as in recycled vs. virgin aluminum. Some products create fewer pollutants, so conserve air in healthy condition, as woodstoves w/ a catalytic converter added to the exhaust chimney. Sending less fresh water out to sea and retaining more in an inland ecosystem, like low-flow toilets do, is another benefit of a green product.
Humans have densely populated the earth drawing on so many natural resources that it is unclear whether the planet will be able to continue to support anything but the most primitive life in the not-so-distant future. Green products by making fewer demands buy us time to find much more efficient ways of surviving and to accept that we must gain control over our population growth.
Green products conserve scarce resources in some way. Using less energy to be produced or transported for sale than the products that are traditionally used for the same purpose is a benefit of some "green" products. Consuming less energy when they are in use, like CFLs instead of incandescent bulbs, is another benefit of a "green" product. Using a more easily renewable resource that doesn’t take as much of a toll on the land or doesn’t leave the soil as vulnerable to erosion, like bamboo instead of hardwood floor boards, is a benefit of a "green" product. By using a recycled material for something, less resource intensive mining and refining is needed, as in recycled vs. virgin aluminum. Some products create fewer pollutants, so conserve air in healthy condition, as woodstoves w/ a catalytic converter added to the exhaust chimney. Sending less fresh water out to sea and retaining more in an inland ecosystem, like low-flow toilets do, is another benefit of a green product.
Humans have densely populated the earth drawing on so many natural resources that it is unclear whether the planet will be able to continue to support anything but the most primitive life in the not-so-distant future. Green products by making fewer demands buy us time to find much more efficient ways of surviving and to accept that we must gain control over our population growth.