Story of stuff
There are problems in our life and we don’t
focus in them. One of these problems is the pollution. While we buy the stuff,
the world is polluted. There are people around the world care about this issue
and they need help because the people who pollute the world are increasing.
Some countries found some solutions like recycling the stuff. The UAE is one of
the countries which care about the environment. There are other problems such
as our consumption is less than what we buy so we need to look again in the
material process and solve the mistakes in it. I’m going to show you some of
the issues that need solutions and some stats.
The first step of the materials process
starts with extraction. Extraction is another word of exploitation of natural
resources. In the 19th century, it was the beginning of the
extraction. In these days, 80% of the energy which is consumed by the people
around the world is based on fossil fuels, which is consist oil, coal and gas.
There are problems around the world all of them are results of the bad exploitation
of natural resource. For instance, the forest is disappearing. 80% of the
world’s original forests are gone and only in the Amazon there are 2000 losing
trees in a minute. “Today,
about 80% of the world’s energy consumption is sustained by the extraction of
fossil fuels, which consists of oil, coal and gas.” (Exploitation of
natural resources – Wikipedia)
The next step is the production is change
group of inputs to outputs that are needed by the market. There are two main group of resources that
included by the production; the transforming resources, and the transformed
resources. The buildings,
computers and machines; all of these are transforming resources and even the
people who do the transforming processes. The raw materials and components that
are transformed into end products; these are examples of transformed resources.
After we knew the definition of the
production, let us to know the disadvantages of the production to solve the
problems. The most important problem is the pollution. There are many ways
which the production affects the health of the environment. For instance, the
factories product pollution in the air and in the water. We can solve these
problems and these some solutions; monitor the factories, put laws to protect
the environment and put filter on the chimney of the factories. “The production process is concerned
with transforming a range of inputs into those outputs that are required by the
market.” (Production process – business case studies)
Thirdly, distribution is a process which we
can make products through it or let the consumers consumption by direct ways or
indirect ways. Larger companies usually put a distribution strategy to enter in
market. Distribution strategy is a plan which
specifies how the company wants to move the products to intermediaries,
retailers and in the last to the consumers. There are many examples of materials distribution
around the world. The coal distribution around the world as the following: 1%
in South America, 5% in Africa, 9% in Oceania, 13% in Europe, 27% in North
America and 44% in Asia. “Distribution
is the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption
by a consumer or business user, using direct means, or using indirect means
with intermediaries.” (Distribution (business) – Wikipedia)
Fourthly, in this step I will show
information about how did the world consume the stuff through different years?
In 2003: There are countries consumed the food around 40 to 45% such as Latvia
and Lithuania. The countries which have food consumption between 30 to 35% are
Estonia, Slovakia and Poland. The United States has less than 10% of the food
consumption in 2003. The United States has the biggest oil consumption in the
world through 2010 and it is more than 19 million barrels in a day. The world’s
consumption of the oil is around 93 million barrels in a day.
The UAE is one of the petroleum countries
and last average of the consumption in 2011 is 487,000 barrel per a day.
Through one year, the UAE decreased from the oil consumption with -20% and that
mean from 618,250 barrel per a day to 487,000 barrel per a day. There is
another big change; it is in the food consumption. In 2012, the UAE’s
consumption was $7.7 billion and in 2013 almost it is $9 billion. “The UAE’s food consumption is
seen to jump by 17 per cent to $9 billion in 2013, compared to an estimate of
$7.7 billion in 2012.” (Food consumption to jump 17% - Khaleej Times)
The final step of the materials process is
the disposal. This stage of the material process comes after we finish from the
consumption of the materials. There two ways to throw away the waste either
friendly environment method or polluting the environment. The ways which are safe
to the environment such as the recycling, biological reprocessing and energy
recovery. We can use the waste as fuel directly and we can process them into
another type of fuel for energy recovery. There are material that we can
recover them such as the materials that are organic in nature like plant
material, food scraps, and paper products and we can recover them through
composting and digestion processes to decompose the organic matter.
To conclude, I showed some solutions what I
could found and I hope we will live in the future in clean, fair, healthy and
organized society.
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