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The Re-Use Atlas
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The Re-Use Atlas

by Duncan Baker-Brown
July 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
6h 56m
English
RIBA Publishing
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CHAPTER 2 What a Waste!

Cat Fletcher, co-founder of Freegle UK and a Waste House partner

IT IS TIME TO TRYUL UNDERSATND the shocking impact of our consumption on the planet’s ecosystems. Globally we have around $100 trillion of economic activity1 ($100 billion of that is online via Amazon alone every year2) which is reliant on the extraction, harvesting and processing of 62 billion tonnes of materials every year.3 Around 60% of goods produced from this vast quantity of raw materials was privately consumed by only 12% of the world’s population (in 2002) whereas 33% of the world’s population in South-east Asia got to consume only 3.2% of all goods4 – a truly unfair distribution of global resources and wealth.

All this human consumption is also ...

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ISBN: 9781000701401