Counting on … day 12

16th January 2025

Changing how we consume, reuse and refill products to ensure a sustainable world requires more than just consumer action. It needs systemic change: “big brands and businesses need to be held responsible for cleaning up their act!  We need an end to corporates buying too much stock and then encouraging us to buy things we don’t need via sales and Black Friday. We need an end to corporates promoting more and more “seasons”, constantly trying to persuade us that things in our home are no longer in vogue, that our clothes and furnishings are out-of-fashion. It’s corporate behaviour that has created the single use system and we need to change that system – so it’s the corporates that need to change.” (1)

  1. https://www.refill.org.uk/about/what-is-reuse/
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Author: Judith Russenberger

Environmentalist and theologian, with husband and three grown up children plus one cat, living in London SW14. I enjoy running and drinking coffee - ideally with a friend or a book.

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