
The process of obtaining a good or service by passing certain resources through various processes is called production. While people obtain their natural needs, such as health, education, shelter, clothing, and transportation, they benefit from natural resources or the products offered for sale by processing them. The use of produced goods and services to meet the needs and desires of consumers is called consumption.
Consuming our resources as much as we need is enough to sustain our existence. Without using existing resources or recycling, raw materials, water, and energy in nature, we should not consume more than we need, using them as if they were unlimited.
In terms of sustainability, the consumption of raw materials in sufficient quantities to meet our needs is called production consumption balance.
Waste, or extravagance, is the unnecessary use of money, raw materials, food, clothing, labor, energy, technology, water, and time. Every product we don’t really need, don’t use, or buy as disposable brings waste, resource depletion, and environmental pollution.
For example, buying clothes we don’t need, keeping the lights on unnecessarily, and staying in the shower for a long time and leaving the water on while brushing your teeth and lathering your hands cause waste.
In addition, using private vehicles instead of public transportation causes extra gasoline usage; gasoline consumption causes exhaust, that is, carbon monoxide gas emissions; and carbon monoxide gas emissions cause health problems such as headaches, dizziness, loss of consciousness, poisoning, and environmental pollution.
For this reason, we need to be aware of the multifaceted negative effects of events and shape our consumption habits accordingly.