Video Reflection: Cosmetics and Bottled Water

These videos were very interesting, by showing the impacts of items that are used in our everyday lives, such as cosmetics and bottled water. The information that the video provided seem to cover the underlying issues of these two products explaining that cosmetics use 12000 different chemicals in their products. A rather alarming amount of toxic chemicals that are being applied straight to the body and then washed off down your drains. When looking at this product it is a requirement to see the post purchase affects of the product, such as these chemicals reaching our waterways and harming our aquatic life. I found it surprising that i never thought of cosmetics in this light mostly as i didn't know how many chemicals are used in the making of them.

Bottled water has been really under the microscope for years now showing the false product that it really is, this has been shown throw marketing campaigns. Although the information shown about bottled water i had already found out from previous sources of information, it was still a confronting issue.

Video reflection: Recycling

After watching these short films, it is clear that industry in the past years have grown a great understanding of recycling. The techniques and technological advancements that are used these days in these processes are incredibly complex. I was most impressed with the optical separating equipment used when separating plastic and glass.

There is a clear understanding within the films that industries are slowly coming around to the realisation that materials won’t be around for ever if they keep using the same processes. Companies have spent thousands and thousands of dollars on producing more efficient techniques in processing of material and material recovery systems. In this way companies will be ‘future’ proofing them against the inevitable depletion of material within our planet.

Companies in these films seem to not only make products from recycled material but also create products that will benefit the environment into the future. This ‘greener’ thinking for industry is a much needed change for not only their image to the consumer and the world but also to the environment.

These changes are spurred on by constant advertisements and an environmentally informative society. Although these messages in are society can be confused with claims of ‘greener’ products the efforts of all industry should be to produce greener products and smarter material use.

Recycling in the long run first starts with the consumer of the product placing the product they have bought within a recycling friendly bin. In my opinion all suburbs should have a recycling system, if the recycled goods cant get to these companies what choice do they have but to buy raw material.