Once upon a time, environmental care was reserved for specialists and scientists, however now it’s a major issue for all of us because over the past 10 years we’ve been receiving continuous signals of changes in our global environment. We’ve learned that the changes can affect our daily lives as individuals. We’ve also learned that caring for the environment makes good business sense, because it can save money.
Today, companies want energy-efficient products that minimise pollution. But demands for environmental care go beyond the product, to the production process itself – how the product was made and what it’s made of. For example, mandatory labeling of products in the EU and elsewhere covers everything from household appliances and cars to clothing and food packaging.
The fact is that as society develops, environmental impact is unavoidable. The main objective now is for the development to be sustainable, which means that as consumers and as producers, we must help minimise this impact in terms of both what we do and what we buy.
The environment is our environment and the world that our children and we live in.
We haven’t inherited the earth from our ancestors, we’ve borrowed it from our children.
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