Shopping Choices

Shopping Choices book cover — Helen Lanz

Shopping Choices — page 1 — Shop Till You Drop Have you been out shopping to spend your allowance lately Maybe you've bought some new clothes We all buy new things from time to time and have to buy new clothes when we grow out of our old ones or they wear out ETSUPERMARI An initial CAIS Growing Demand our demand for new things grows every year In the past most people had less money so they bought things only when they really needed them and made them last These days we buy more things than E people used to and we keep them for less time before throwing them away Importantly there are also now many more of us than there RSL used to be The Earth's population has multiplied by four times in the last 100 years and more people means more shoppers West Edmonton Mall in Canada is the biggest shopping center in North America It has more than 800 retail outlets and is visited by more than 28 million shoppers a

Shopping Choices — page 2 — What’s the Cost Buying new things can be fun and exciting but every step in the process of making new goods has a cost This isn’t just a money cost but a cost to our environment Making new goods uses up the Earth’s natural resources It also uses lots of energy in the form of electricity to process the goods and in the form of fuel to transport them all over the world Finally disposing of these goods takes its toll on the environment too Container ships carry goods from country to country all over the world HOW MANY PAIRS In the United States more than 450 million pairs of jeans are sold every year That’s 1 5 pairs of jeans for every person in the United States including children In just one day people from the U S buy 2,300,000 pairs of shoes That’s enough to cover about 11 football fields with shoe boxes The average American woman owns 27 pairs of shoes 7

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