1. How can you regain control of your world through your consumerism?Presented by Lizette Smook Managing Director InnovAsians Ltd.

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Consumerism

Consumerism summarized

Consumer wastage cause and affect

Consumer wastage and consumer health

The shift needed

Resistance

The base for a shift already exists

Agenda 3.

Consumerism

Consumerism summarized

Consumer wastage cause and affect

Consumer wastage and consumer health

The shift needed

Resistance

The base for a shift already exists

Agenda 4.

In 1955, economist Victor Lebow stated (as quoted by Rees, 2009):

"Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction and our ego satisfaction in consumption. We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever-increasing rate".

DEFINED www.wikipidia.com 5.

Consumerism

Consumerism summarized

Consumer wastage cause and affect

Consumer wastage and consumer health

The shift needed

Resistance

The base for a shift already exists

Agenda 6. SUMMERIZED http://www.storyofstuff.com/ 7.

Consumerism

Consumerism summarized

Consumer wastage cause and affect

Consumer wastage and consumer health

The shift needed

Resistance

The base for a shift already exists

Agenda 8.

85,000,000 plastic bottles used every 3 minutes(National Geographic)

260,000,000 tons of plastic produced per year only approx 5% gets recycled

2,000 times more energy is needed to make/ship bottled water than tap water

WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR WORLD? www.kaiseiproject.org 9.

In 1997, the average woman bought 19 items of clothing a year, this has risen to 34 items

1.9m tonnes of textiles were disposed of in 2005 in the UK.

1.2m tonnes went into the rubbish bin

100 000 yards of fabric /cutting room in China on average with 20% wastage

The avarage American throw away 68 lbs. of textiles every year

CONSUMER WASTE www.just-style.com 10.

12% of purchased products are never used and discarded.

CNN

97% of respondents were pleased with the performance of recycled content products.

Buy Recycled Business Alliance

InnovAsians Ltd. Hong Kong. All rights reserved ENVIRONMENT 11. FACTS ON PLASTIC 12. THE LAND 13. OUR OCEANS www.projectkaisei.org 14. THE AIR 15.

Consumerism

Consumerism summarized

Consumer wastage cause and affect

Consumer wastage and consumer health

The shift needed

Resistance

The base for a shift already exists

Agenda 16.

It has been estimated that up to one sixth of all child fatalities and disease can be attributed to environmental factors.

Health European Commission

82% of surveyed landfills had leaks.

green101.experience.com

People living near solid waste landfills where gas is escaping have a four-fold increased chance of bladder cancer or leukemia.

New York State Department of Health

InnovAsians Ltd. Hong Kong. All rights reserved ENVIRONMENT 17.

Air Pollution, Heart Disease and Stroke Exposure to air pollution contributes to the development of cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke).

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4419 DISEASE 18.

Nine different pollutants have been "verified" to cause asthma - including four from car exhausts. Testicular atrophy is caused by oestrogen, increasingly found in British rivers that supply drinking water. Mercury poisoning can cause cerebral palsy, while more than 50 pollutants - ranging from dioxins to PCBs - have been shown to cause cancer. Other effects include: kidney disease, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, dermatitis bronchitis, hyperactivity, deafness, sperm damage and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

http://www.eurocbc.org/pollutio_linked_to_200_diseases_14nov2004page1774.html DISEASE 19.

Consumerism

Consumerism summarized

Consumer wastage cause and affect

Consumer wastage and consumer health

The shift needed

Resistance

The base for a shift already exists

Agenda 20.

LESS, LESS LESS

Slow down purchasing

Buy with a conscious

Conscious living (air con, water, etc)

Know what you buy

SHIFT NEEDED 21. Organic cottonHemp Wool Seacell ALTERNATIVES ALTERNATE TEXTILES 22. Soy silk Bamboo Corn fiberRecycled PET (water bottels) ALTERNATIVES ALTERNATE TEXTILES 23. CORNSTARCH ALTERNATE PLASTICS 24. RICE HUSK REPLACE MELAMINE SUSTAINABLE REPLACEMENT FOR MELAMINE 25. BEGASSE AND BAMBOO ALTERNATE FOR DISPOSABLES E.G.POLYSTYRENE 26. TIME ENCODED PP/Pe PP WITH TIME-ENCODING 1-2 YEAR LIFE SPAN 27. REDUCING THE ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINTE LEATHER 28.

Consumerism

Consumerism summarized

Consumer wastage cause and affect

Consumer wastage and consumer health

The shift needed

Resistance

The base for a shift already exists

Agenda 29.

Crisis-Oriented Environmental Management:Environmental management hampers business performance. Businesses should not cooperate with the government or anyone else who detracts from the purpose of business: to make money

Cost-Oriented Environmental Management:Environmental regulations are a cost of doing business, nothing more

ANTI - PARADIGMS 30.

Consumerism

Consumerism summarized

Consumer wastage cause and affect

Consumer wastage and consumer health

The shift needed

Resistance

The base for a shift already exists

Agenda 31. Source:Global Lifestyle Monitor IV The majority of global consumers will pay more for clothes made from natural fibers such as cotton. CLOTHING AND FIBRE 32.

• LOHAS describes a > $209 billion U.S. marketplace for goods and services that appeal to consumers who value health, the environment, social justice, personal development and sustainable living.

Originally identified by co-research conducted by Conscious Wave and The Natural Marketing Institute in 2000. Within the LOHAS market divisions are products and services that:

• Improve health and safeguard eco-systems

• Develop human potential

• Reduce the use of natural resources

• Purchases created or conducted in socially

• responsible manner

THERE IS A CHANGE IN CONSUMERS 33.

97% of respondents were pleased with the performance of recycled content products.

Buy Recycled Business Alliance

FACTS 34. SURVEY www.pricegrabber.com 35. Thank you