How many times we questioned ourselves while buying a product or service about it’s what/whereabouts.
Do these products have chemicals safe to me and the environment?
I can’t feel good if these products around me in office and home are off-gassing chemicals harmful enough to cause inherent damage to my children and theirs.
Whether their raw materials extracted in a nutrient manner?
It’s not a pleasant picture if our future generation have to pay a premium for things which are today’s most common stuff which will become scarce tomorrow and it is just because we have this luxury.
Whether they are processed and produced in a healthy way to the environment?
I will carry home a feeling of social inequity along with the product, if their production and process methods were spoiling the surrounding waterways and smoking out harmful gases, while I live peacefully.
Whether their place of manufacturing/production has healthy occupational standards?
It is a feeling of guilt comes free with the product when you are aware that those fellow workers making things you desire have to tangle with soup of chemicals while you bring home a beautiful stuff.
Were they shipped to locations in an eco-friendly way?
With all these fighting for fossil fuels, I don’t want my product to be shipped half way across the world, allowing my next generation to fight and drill in obsolete places for few more drums of oil.
What will happen to the product when I am finished using it?
How about throwing them away in the middle of some ocean creating a floating soup to bio-accumulate in aquatic lives or creating a landfill near by so that our grandchildren can’t plant a single tree around.
That’s so much for me to know while buying a product, but it is high time we start to ask for these? How do we change this fundamental design paradigm?
vijay its stunning see the fact that ,where the world is leading.
ReplyDeleteAs we humans spoil the earth which belongs to other living things also.
As a common man we can agree to buy a energy efficient products, usage of power and water effiectively.
Earlier days i use to see my mother going to market with a single bag to collect everything together , but now she carries back ten plastic bags from market.Being a designer we can here by ideate and make products which lasts long , efficeient technology and the materials which can be produced without any toxic wastes.