zaterdag 22 maart 2014

The story of your waste, don’t buy junk!





“You are 22 years old. By now you will have owned 4 mobile phones. A mobile phone weighs around 140 grams, next to nothing. But the manufacturing process produces 75 kilograms of waste per mobile phone!”

Most of us will have to admit that those sentences seem to be correct. But that’s not all, if you go to the website http://www.kopinteskrap.se/english/, you can discover a lot of other things about your own pattern of spending. It is a campaign from Sysav, a recycling company in the heart of Sweden. They try to sensibilize the people in order to produce less waste, to repair old stuff and to avoid unnecessary purchases. According to their calculations, “If we continue to buy, discard and produce at our current rate, the global waste will have increased by 72% by 2025.”

An interactive tool

After a brief introduction on the website, you have the opportunity to fill in your name or your Facebook profile. If you think you would be ashamed of the result, don’t hesitate to only fill in your name! ;-) The following is quite surprising, but the makers tackle the problem very well.

An answer to a lot of questions

They address you quite personally and succeed in a playful way to catch your attention on some pertinent issues. A clever trick they use is to ask always the same type of questions that doom-mongers would ask, like: “Should I move to the woods and live without electricity?” or “Shall I smell bad and look like crap?”. Of course, you don’t have to become that extreme, but they always give you some smart advice. The website emphasizes especially on the fact that you don’t have to introduce great changes in your daily life: you don’t have to do a great effort to use biodegradable products or to go shopping in second-hand stores.

But... Most of all, a challenge!

Although it is a Swedish site, it doesn’t matter that you have another nationality. A little hint for those who may be a bit confused: one Swedish kronor is 0,06 euros. And now, discover the rest of the tips and tricks, go to http://www.kopinteskrap.se/english/ and fill in your name and age. Do you dare? 




Alexandra, Thomas and Ellen

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