Effects To The Environment
Your choices as a consumer affect the _____, _____, and ______ that you share with everybody
Air, Water, and Land
As consumers, why should you go green?
To help preserve the environment and reduce harmful things from affecting the environment.
What does GDP stand for?
Gross Domestic Product.
Encourages you to buy a product or service because everyone else is.
What is bandwagon effect?
The choices we make as comsumers can reflect our ____. Clothes represent what our beliefs and values are.
Identity
Ink is made from organic compounds. The manufacturer of organic compounds emits pollutants such as __________
Sulphur Oxides
What are 3 advantages of being a wise consumer?
Save money, Protect your health, Protect the environment
What does GDP mean?
GDP measures the amount of wealth a country's economy generates.
Uses strong emotional language that connects with your fears and desires.
What is emotional appeal?
Comsumers __________ is the focus for most sellers. Its important to protect consumers.
Health and Safety
How does manufacturing plastic affect the environment?
Manufacturing plastic releases greenhouse gases and toxins that can combine with rainwater, making acidic rain.
What does it mean to be a wise consumer?
Who has the largest GDP per capita in North America?
The US has the largest GDP per capita in North America.
Uses celebrities or experts to speak for a product
What are testimonials
When you buy a product, you connect to a chain of people and other _____
Jobs
What makes up at least a 1/4th of all plastic waste in the US?
Packaging and plastic containers
How to reduce plastic waste?
Cardboard packaging, reusing plastics, and recycling can all contribute to reducing plastic waste.
Both Canada and the US have legislation that affects what advertising can and can't say. For example, advertising cant make ____ or ____ claims about _____ and ______
False or misleading
Products and Services
Relates the product or service to words or images that promise everything, but deliver little or nothing.
What are glittering generalities
How much garbage is thrown out weekly in the USA?
A million tonnes, or 2 billion pounds.
Consumers demand for products containing ____. Which contributes to decisions that restrict environmental harm
Copper
Environmental organizations, such as _______, use _____ as one way to take action on issues that concern them
Greenpeace and Boycotts
Both governemnts in the US and Canada have banned leaded ____, because of the harmful effects of lead on human health and the enviorment
Gasoline
Relates a product or service to the experience of ordinary folks.
Your choices as a consumer also effect the air, water, and land that you share with everybody
Enviorment