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GCSE revision (Sustainability)
Sustainability
- Sustainability refers to how biological systems endure and remain diverse and productive.
- Managed plantations
- Control deforestation
- Forestry Stewardships Council
- Managed plantations
- Sustainability refers to how biological systems endure and remain diverse and productive.
Enviromental issues
- Environmental issues are harmful aspects of human activity on the biophysical environment.
- Life cycle assessment
- Life
- disposal after life
- Use of energy
- disposal after life
- Stages
- From raw materials to disposal
- Impact
- Landfills
- Polution
- Land
- Water
- Polution
- Landfills
- Built in obsolecance
- Life
- Life cycle assessment
- Environmental issues are harmful aspects of human activity on the biophysical environment.
Renewable and non-renewable
- Renewable
- A source of energy that is not depleted by use, such as water, wind, or solar power.
- Solar panels
- Hydro-electric
- Wind turbines
- Geothermal
- Wave and tidal
- A source of energy that is not depleted by use, such as water, wind, or solar power.
- Non-renewable
- A non-renewable resource is a resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in meaningful human timeframes.
- Oil
- Gas
- Coal
- Fossil fuels
- Finite resourses
- Minerals
- Metals
- Ores
- Nuclear fuels
- In some cases ground water
- A non-renewable resource is a resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in meaningful human timeframes.
- Renewable
6R's
- Reduce
- Is it possible to reduce the amount of materials used?
- Rethink
- Is there a better way to solve this problem that is less damaging to the environment?
- Refuse
- Is the packaging really needed?
- Do you need to upgrade your phone even if working properly?
- Is the packaging really needed?
- Recycle
- Is the product made from materials that are easy to recycle?
- Material seperation
- Could recycled materials be used?
- Is the product made from materials that are easy to recycle?
- Reuse
- Could item be passed on, thereby extending it's useful life?
- Given to charity
- Could item be passed on, thereby extending it's useful life?
- Repair
- Could product be repaired/fixed if faulty?
- Reduce
Social
- Products can have Human and Environmental costs
- Off-setting
- Bio degradable
- Carbon footprint
- Human
- Religious groups
- Cultural groups
- Social groups
- Working conditions
- Unsafe buildings
- Avoid child labour
- old/unsafe machinery
- Products can have Human and Environmental costs
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- Sustainability requirements for AQA GCSE Product Design and Resistant Materials
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- Created by 10getleys · Mar 3, 2014
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