Life cycle

Products live even if we sometimes forget that they do. Their life don't start and end while we buy, use and get rid of them. There's much more behind and in front of that.

The desirable cycle of every product is the circle shaped one, the one that is closed. The circle start with raw material, extracted from the land. This raw material is transported in different ways and affecting in different amounts our environment. Then manufacturing transform the material into a product. A product that is used and sometimes reused by customers. This is disposed to the land or recycled closing and begining the cycle once again.

All this stages affect both the product life and the enviroment. They affect the planet in many ways but to analyse in quantity you have to choosewhich environmentaal effects are the ones which do it in a bigger way. Moreover, depending on this choice and also the resources the company or process has same data will lead to a conclusion or complete different one.

In environmental issues there´s no right or wrong, just better or worse and even these two are susceptible to be questioned.

The same product depending on where is manufactured have different effects, even if the amount of damage is the same, or do you think that will be the same cutting 10,000 trees in Finland and in Asia where deforestation is a real problem?

Sadly or not, analysis don´t allways direct us to a concrete solution but understanding the problem is the first step to solve or at least improve it.

RE:

REthink, REduce, REuse, REcycle.