Assignment:
Consider any household routine, be it preparation of dinner or bag lunches for school, doing laundry, or maintaining the lawn.
- Identify and briefly describe the household process or routine.
- List all equipment and materials needed to complete the task, identifying each as durable or non-durable.
- Provide a summary recommendation to a change in the process, equipment or materials used, that would result in lesser use of non-durable goods.
- Provide your opinion as to whether the change is a positive one. In this area, opinions may vary. For example, although the use of disposable paper plates increases the waste of paper and trees, is it a greater environmental negative than the energy used in a dishwasher, and the chemicals used to clean dishes?
Submit your analysis of not more than one page, to the Durable / Non-durable dropbox. |
In this activity, you will analyze and evaluate the durable and non-durable goods used in any household process. You will then make recommendations to improve the process through changes to the use of the durable and/or non-durable goods.
