Subject: Hot dollar ($2 shop)
Have you ever wondered where the thousands of products that line the many shelves of your local $2 shop come from? How they are manufactured? Or how they get there, for that matter? Well from my observations..
Its likely that their goods are manufactured in China in large quantities then either shipped or posted via air freight across the world. Do they care about their carbon impact along the way, from the factory to the shops address? I'm thinking no.
You can clearly see from the overcrowded isles and lacking storage space that being environmentally friendly is not a high priority. With high demand for inexpensive goods for the home/workplace, they could receive between 3 or 4 deliveries per week. So from china to Australia by a shipping container, then unloaded by a crane at the port, loaded into a semi trailer, transported to a warehouse, unloaded again by a forklift, then reloaded into a smaller truck/van and delivered to the shop address. This is all before it is put on the shelf in a brightly lit store inside a large shopping complex. Do they relate sustainability to the workplace? My answer is no and I'm afraid it probably never will.
In the future I hope to have a brighter outlook on stores such as this, because just the slightest change for good can make a huge impact.
K
No comments:
Post a Comment