Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts - Henry David Thoreau
According to research, the British think they bin almost 10% of their weekly shop. With 8% wasting as much as a quarter of the food regularly bought, the research identified six types of people, each of whom wastes food in a different way.
Ecological transparency continues to increase in many consumer markets.
Some manufacturers are now cutting harmful chemicals in dry cleaning machinery, while consumers seeking alternatives can also remove many stains with household substances such as baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, or starch.
However, consumers have to make careful choices as cleaning agents for dishwashers often have a high chemical content.
While traceability often deals with issues like product recalls and contaminated food, new product tracking apps aim to protect not consumers, but manufacturers: specifically, the children and adults who make the products we buy.
You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal - Leonard Cohen
What is extremely dangerous today is that we have billions of people who are poised to experience a quality of life in the so-called first world?materialism?at a time when many of us are realising how limited that is and that we need to live more lightly on the land - Don Beck, http://www.wie.org/j23/roundtable.asp?page=2
We spend money we don't have on things we don't need to impress people we don't care about - Tim Jackson, #TEDGlobal 2010
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions - Anthony J. D'Angelo
The most important things in life aren't things - Anon