Flowers Try Not To Be Wasteful

"Packaging design is a sub specialty within the engineering fields, with several professional societies, professional journals, and industry organizations devoted to more sustainable packaging." (Robertson, 2014.)

My favorite makeup company Colourpop has foam inserts in the packaging. (http://www.beaumiroir.com/2015/10/colourpop-haul-photos-swatches.html)

 

 

 

Since online shopping has become so big companies are trying to set themselves a part from each other. So to do that they have specific ways to do their packaging.  Some companies that do just this is the makeup companies. Some makeup companies add extra decorative paper or inserts to make  sure the makeup stays completely still and will not move in transit. Of course it is cute and for some customers it makes the company look more upscale and worth the money that they pay. Little do most customers know that the different decorative packaging materials that they just throw away are just left in a landfill but some of the paper can be recycled over and over again. We just have to learn the proper and safe way of getting rid the decorative packaging material so that we do not hurt the environment.

"An environmental management system (EMS) is an organization's formal system for developing, implementing, and maintaining its environmental policy, the framework by which it manages the quality of the environment over which it has influence." (Robertson, 2014.)

The sign that should start hanging in every company. (http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-14430190/stock-photo-reuse-reduce-recycle.html)

 If we were to enforce the environmental management system (EMS) then we slowly change companies one by one until each one is more environmentally safe then they were before. We should just make sure that they have environmental rules the fit the type of products or services the companies make. This may take a long time to figure out how to maintain a  safe environmental process for each company but in the end it would benefit the world and making it better. The framework that needs to be put in place can start at one company and from there on the influence of one company starting with the EMS then other companies will follow along and soon it would be everywhere. It always starts with one and continues on to another like a chain reaction but in a good way.


"Electronic waste, or e-waste, is the name given to discarded electronics and electrical appliances including computers, cell phones, televisions, and refrigerators." (Robertson, 2014.)

People do not know that they should also recycle all the different types of electronics when they get old. If we do not then the different pieces of a phone go to landfills and just sit there. Electronics do not break down they have to be processed so that they can be taken apart made into new electronics. Sometimes if the parts on the inside are not heavily damaged then it would be easier to recycle them into new products so that they can help other people. Even some cell phone pieces could help make any type of medical electronics in smaller countries. Also different types of electronics have toxic materials in it that could pollute the Earth and everyone around it and then in turn everyone that lives around or near a landfill.

A electronic landfill. (https://trivalleyrecyclers.com/electronic-waste/)