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The Life Cycle of Stuff
Beyond Recycling
The life cycle of a monarch butterfly
The life cycle of a product
What are the steps in the life cycle of a waffle iron?
Product Stewardship
The Government requires producers of certain products to take responsibility for the life cycle management of their products, including collection and recycling
When we use raw materials or natural resources from the Earth, it has an
IMPACT on our planet.
To IMPACT means to influence or effect
Do a pair of jeans have an impact on our environment?
everything we use has a storylooking at the life cycle of a product helps us
understand how it impacts the planet
• Clear-cutting• Pesticide use • Water use• Erosion• Habitat
disruption
What are some environmental
impacts of growing crops
(such as cotton)?
What are some environmental impacts
of clear cutting ?
(to make room for cotton crops)
• Habitat Destruction• Erosion (soil loss)• Changes to climate and
to hydrological cycle
What are some environmental impacts of mining for minerals
and coal, a fossil fuel?(used for chemicals on cotton)
• Habitat destruction• Erosion• Water pollution
What are some environmental
impacts of drilling for oil, a
fossil fuel?(Used to transport
cotton)
• Habitat destruction
• Air pollution• Water Pollution
Factories produce emissions when raw materials are turned into products
(such as cotton into jeans!) by using heat, pressure, water and fossil fuels.
emissions are released (or emitted) into the air when fossil fuels are burned
also called: air pollution,
smoke, smog, greenhouse
gases
Factories also produce liquid waste. This is called effluent
What are the environmental
impacts of transportation?
• Fossil fuel use
• Emissions• Habitat
destruction
• Do we buy more than we need?
• Do we use them fully?
• How often to we wash them? (using detergents creates effluent)
Consumption
What are the environmental
impacts of disposal?
• Emissions• Habitat
destruction• Energy use
Everything we use has an impact on the Planet
Each pair of jeans has its own storyThe impact of our jeans can be larger or smaller depending on their life cycle
A company can make better choices and understand the impact of their product through a Life Cycle Assessment
What choices can we make to reduce the impact of our “stuff” on the Planet?
* Buy recycled, or recyclable products (less waste)
*Buy locally made materials (less transportation)
* Reuse, repair and recycle (less need for ‘new’ stuff, and raw materials)
* Buy Less!
Extra slides
Can we green our jeans?
Making Levi's® WaterLess Jeans Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9iOUea46TU&feature=related
A real life example of greening jeans!
Can you hyper link this Dawn?:
Reducing the impactProducts don’t always HAVE to co
come from raw materials.
How can we reduce the raw materials, energy and waste that
goes into making new products?
We need many raw materials
from many different
countries
Each of these raw materials has an impact on the planet
To make a pair of jeans…
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