A BETTER WAYPossible Solutions

Conscious Consuming: Aware of what you buy, and the impact it

has on the environment.

Consumer Labeling: A label that tells how much waste was produced, and how the product was made.

Corporate Social Responsibility: Hold businesses responsible for ethical

manufacturing of a product.

Cradle to Cradle Design: Everything used to create a product can be

reused or recycled.

Extended Producer Responsibility: Producers are

responsible for reducing waste. • Producers are responsible

to collect old products, and disposing of them.

Fair Trade: Members of this organization agree to give fair wages and environmental sustainability.

Governmental Accountability: Government can give incentives for producing sustainable goods and services.

Green Chemistry: The use of nontoxic chemicals to produce

goods.

Local Living Economies: Buy from people that live in the community.

Zero Waste: Eliminate waste and toxic chemicals in products, and make sure materials are not burned.