them to their real needs and opting in • Pose the type of trade that you

the market for options that favor the want to favor.

conservation of the environment and
equality Social. • Ensure the quality of the purchased

Some of the points to consider in TIPS FOR RESPONSIBLE USE

responsible consumption are:
 Before buying something, think
• Consider the environmental impact carefully about whether you
from the point of view of the life really need to buy it or if you are
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cycle of the product to be only being guided by advertising.
Now that Christmas is approaching, it purchased, valuing the production,  If you decide to buy something,
is one of the times of the year that transport, distribution, consumption find out what raw material is
we spend the most, so it is and waste processes that the manufactured in which way its
convenient to know that it is product leaves. manufacturing process impacts
necessary to practice responsible the environment and if it
• Determine the ecological footprint
consumption. generates any social harm or
that certain lifestyle and
injustice.
BUT… consumerism produce.
 Also consider what impact the
… WHAT IS RESPONSIBLE • Determine which companies, use of what you intend to buy
CONSUMPTION? products and services respect the has on the environment and the
environment and human rights to social environment.
Responsible consumption is a concept  Every time you buy something,
prefer them over others that do not
advocated by ecological, social and
meet the aforementioned you should also consider the
political organizations that believe that
requirements. impact caused by the waste and
human beings would do well to change
the garbage it generates.
their consumption habits by adjusting
 Avoid "use and throw away" storing food in plastic and 5. RECYCL E to return to the
products, if not strictly aluminum. material cycle once its useful life
necessary.  Prioritize products with is over.
 Reject the plastic bags they give returnable or reusable 6. REDUCE because we all have the
in supermarkets and shops. If containers. right to equitable proportions of
you can, when making the resources, and the planet has the
BEFORE YOU BUY, THINK
purchase, take your own bags of capacity to satisfy us.
cloth, paper, cardboard or even If the 3 Rs are important in
those of plastic used previously recycling, 6 Rs are required in energy
until they are unusable. consumption.
 Buy the content and not the
container. Many times you pay WHAT ARE THE 6R?
more for everything that
1. REPENSE our way of life,
involves the manufacture and
differentiate our basic needs
disposal of the wrappings, which
from the expendable.
are thrown directly into the
2. REUSING that is, lengthening,
trash, than for the content.
from its design to its use, the
 Recycle before buying, many of
useful life of the materials.
the things that are to be thrown
3. RESTRUCTURING the economic
away can be reused in other ways
system so that, instead of
and ways, use your imagination!
producing superfluous goods, it
 Avoid cans and heavily packaged
concentrates on satisfying
products. Lunch boxes and glass
people's needs.
jars are a greener way than
4. REDUCE excessive consumption