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betwen humans and the environment

2007-01-12 08:06:30 · 5 answers · asked by tinaye daniel matsveru 1 in Environment

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Keeps me in a job though, good old supermarkets they make my employers a fortune, when they said they'd reduce packaging to appease the mentals they were lieing, its on the increase, more increasingly sophisticated packaging in more colours on ever more expensive substrates. If you knew what the latest stuff on silver substrate costs - usually more than the stuff that it contains.

Its all to catch peoples eye and sell stuff - sod the consequences.

2007-01-12 08:20:00 · answer #1 · answered by thecoldvoiceofreason 6 · 0 0

As the "thecoldvoiceofreason" points out in his answer, many people depend on producing packaging for their employment. Everything produced on this planet comes with an impact on the environment. Plastics are made from chemicals which someone is employed to produce, employed to manufacture into packaging, employed to dispose of as waste, and so on. Each chain in the link, from raw ingredients to finished packaging, helps the economy. When waste is recycled, someone is employed to do the recycling. Even waste dumped into land-fill sites means that someone has a job to manage the landfill site. The Earth is not a static, sterile spot in the universe, but is home to humans who have reached the top of the food chain. How well we manage the Earth (while using the Earth's resources responsibly) may allow mankind to live on this planet even longer than the era of the dinosaurs.

2007-01-12 20:44:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Yet another P.C. homework question that pre-judges the issue and fails to consider the 'big picture'....

A (much) better question would be :- "How can we improve the current political/economic system in order to improve the quality and length of life for ourselves and our children ?"

In this context you soon start to focus's on things like the ageing population, Pension crisis, NHS, public spending V Tax's etc. and less on distractions like 'the effects of packaging' ...

2007-01-13 02:41:34 · answer #3 · answered by Steve B 7 · 0 0

the more packaging made the more energy put in releasing co2 into the environment damaging the ozone layer and using up natural resorses (oil)

2007-01-12 08:12:24 · answer #4 · answered by bumblebeenyhappy 2 · 0 0

Its also the actual material used to make the packaging itself: i.e.
plastic does not bio-degrade

2007-01-12 08:16:11 · answer #5 · answered by sportsfan 3 · 0 0

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