Waste

The way we measure the wealth of our economy depends on unsustainable resource consumption and by using too many fossil fuels in the production process contributes to climate change.

We are deemed a wealthier nation by consuming vast amounts of goods not designed to last. Things aren't made to last, and repair, if possible at all, is more expensive with raw materials and energy being cheaper than labour costs.

The transition to a conserver society won’t be easy with a retail industry relying on us to buy new things but we clearly cannot continue to consume our natural resources at current rates or to produce the current mountainous levels of waste.

If everyone in the world was as wasteful as we are in the UK we would need 8 worlds to keep going - the average person in the UK throws out their body weight in rubbish every 3 months.