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Sustainable
A product is sustainable if it is made, used, and disposed of in such a way that it could continue to be
made, used, and disposed of again and again indefinitely.
Sustainable products have two basic criteria:
1. A product must be made from natural resources utilized in such a way that allows those resources to
continue to be available from generation to generation.
2. The waste from a product must stay within the manufacturing loop or assimilate into the natural
ecosystem and not build up or cause pollution.
This sounds simple enough, but in reality assessment for sustainable products becomes very complex
because there are so many factors to consider throughout the life cycle of the product. Consequently, right
now there are few completely sustainable products on the market, but many which have one or more
aspects of being sustainable, such as being recycled, recyclable, biodegradable, renewable,
energy-efficient, and so on.
A product is sustainable if it is made, used, and disposed of in such a way that it could continue to be
made, used, and disposed of again and again indefinitely.
Sustainable products have two basic criteria:
1. A product must be made from natural resources utilized in such a way that allows those resources to
continue to be available from generation to generation.
2. The waste from a product must stay within the manufacturing loop or assimilate into the natural
ecosystem and not build up or cause pollution.
This sounds simple enough, but in reality assessment for sustainable products becomes very complex
because there are so many factors to consider throughout the life cycle of the product. Consequently, right
now there are few completely sustainable products on the market, but many which have one or more
aspects of being sustainable, such as being recycled, recyclable, biodegradable, renewable,
energy-efficient, and so on.
Sustainability
Sustainability--as it relates to the environment--is the ability to keep our ecosystem going over time, taking
from the earth and giving back to the earth in balance.
The concept of sustainability starts with the acknowledgement that we humans live within the natural
ecosystems of the Earth. It is rooted in looking to the inherent workings of nature as a model, with the idea
that the natural systems of the world work in balance to perpetuate life, and by working in harmony with
those natural systems we can sustain our own lives.
It's a law of nature that living organisms must have an exchange of raw materials and wastes with the
surrounding environment in order to survive. The human population and economy depend upon constant
flows of air, water, food, raw materials, and fossil fuels from the earth and we constantly emit wastes and
pollution back to the earth. There are limits to the rates at which the human population can use materials
and energy and there are limits to the rates at which wastes can be emitted without harm to the people, the
economy, or the earth's processes of absorption, regeneration, and regulation. Sustainability is a balance
of taking and giving--not all taking or all giving, but both appropriately in a way that sustains the
continuation.
There is nothing inherently wrong with taking from and giving to the environment, but we must do so in a
sustainable way that maintains the ability of our surrounding environment to continue to give and take. We
can achieve sustainability when we act in such as way as to take only the amount of resource that the earth
can regenerate, and dispose of only the amount of pollution and waste that the earth can assimilate.
The one criteria for choosing products is: Does it contribute to sustainability or does it lead away from
sustainability?
Sustainability--as it relates to the environment--is the ability to keep our ecosystem going over time, taking
from the earth and giving back to the earth in balance.
The concept of sustainability starts with the acknowledgement that we humans live within the natural
ecosystems of the Earth. It is rooted in looking to the inherent workings of nature as a model, with the idea
that the natural systems of the world work in balance to perpetuate life, and by working in harmony with
those natural systems we can sustain our own lives.
It's a law of nature that living organisms must have an exchange of raw materials and wastes with the
surrounding environment in order to survive. The human population and economy depend upon constant
flows of air, water, food, raw materials, and fossil fuels from the earth and we constantly emit wastes and
pollution back to the earth. There are limits to the rates at which the human population can use materials
and energy and there are limits to the rates at which wastes can be emitted without harm to the people, the
economy, or the earth's processes of absorption, regeneration, and regulation. Sustainability is a balance
of taking and giving--not all taking or all giving, but both appropriately in a way that sustains the
continuation.
There is nothing inherently wrong with taking from and giving to the environment, but we must do so in a
sustainable way that maintains the ability of our surrounding environment to continue to give and take. We
can achieve sustainability when we act in such as way as to take only the amount of resource that the earth
can regenerate, and dispose of only the amount of pollution and waste that the earth can assimilate.
The one criteria for choosing products is: Does it contribute to sustainability or does it lead away from
sustainability?