Think
Learn how the things that you create impact on the environmnet. Learn what your paper and packaging is made and from what? This is the only way you can make intelligent and responsible decisions about what materials you use on behalf of your clients.
some issues to think about:
- most paper is made from native forests
- Some materials are made from toxic substances (eg. plastic is made from oil)
- Some materials use toxic substances and processes to create them
- Some materials create toxic by-products
- Some inks and printing processes are toxic
- Some materials become toxic after disposal
- Some materials are made from slave labour in sweatshops
- Some materials are made from resources stolen from indigenous people
- Some materials involve cruelty to animals in production and/or testing
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