Environmental Concerns

Question 1

Sustainablility

Answer 1

sustainable resources can be made with little or no negative impact on the environment or the health and well being of the workers- can be replaced at the same rate as they are used up

Question 2

Organic

Answer 2

No pesticides were used at all- ground must be pesticide free for 3 years in order to be classed as organic

Question 3

Fair trade

Answer 3

workers are paid a living wage, they have a regulated work day, get paid overtime and are paid overtime

Question 4

Californian cotton project

Answer 4

farmers grow buffer crops to attract lygus bugs away from real cotton plants

Question 5

6 R’s of sustainability

Answer 5

re-use, rethink, refuse, reduce. recycle, repair

Question 6

Impact of cotton harvest

Answer 6

use of pesticides causing cancer and other disease, ultimately death

Question 7

Impacts of dying

Answer 7

uses lots of water and chemicals- end up in drinking water- pollution of oceans

Question 8

Transport and packaging

Answer 8

uses up and lot of energy- emissions from transport and in order to make packaging