How does buying natural/recycled/organic products help the enviroment?
The methods we use to produce many of the products we use are very toxic. That is a big reason why so many of our factories have moved overseas. The US has the EPA which helps protect worker safety and the environment. Many of the countries we have moved factories to don’t have those protections. Using natural material instead of plastics or other synthetics produces dramatically less toxic waste and pollution. The use of recycled material allows valuable resources to be used and reduces what goes into a landfill. Organic cotton and food reduces the amount of pesticides used which protects our soil and water as well as slows down the mutations in pests that make them resistant to these sprays.
Buying natural or organic products means you’re supporting companies who do not add hormones, pesticides, preservatives, etc to the food you eat. This reduces your exposure to chemicals and hormones your body does not need and cannot always get rid of; some chemicals stay in your bones for years. Buying recycled products means a substance that would have gone into a landfill where it might produce methane gas (more harmful than carbon dioxide) or have chemicals seep into soil, or have have other harmful effects on the environment, is not in that landfill and is still being used in a positive way. Recycled products also mean that trees weren’t cut down or some metal mined to produce it, which means less drain on the planet’s resources.
