Waste Not, Want Green Waste Reduction through Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
Date of Award
2007
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Social Sciences
First Advisor
Alcock, Frank
Keywords
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing, Green Economy, Green Business, Eco Design, Whole Foods Market
Area of Concentration
Environmental Studies
Abstract
Americans remain the world's waste champions, with a matching appetite for particularly inefficient consumption. Using a retail-sector case study with Whole Foods Market, I will examine changing both the amount of consumption as well as products consumed at the level of the individual customer, the Sarasota store, and the Florida Region. In my project, I wish to stress how ecologically destructive consumerism in the United States can be altered to do the very opposite. By means of environmentally preferable purchasing with an emphasis on waste reduction, we can use the existing capitalist economic system to promote ecologically balanced industries and the green economy as a whole.
Recommended Citation
Yukus, Dawn, "Waste Not, Want Green Waste Reduction through Environmentally Preferable Purchasing" (2007). Theses & ETDs. 3883.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/3883