We live in a throwaway society, a place where businesses products have Planned Obsolescence built into them. this all started in 1924, representatives of the world's leading lightbulb manufacturers formed Phoebus, a cartel that fixed the average life of an incandescent bulb at 1,000 hours, ensuring that people would have to regularly buy bulbs and keep the manufacturers in business. With the advancement of technology in our society creates the desire for convenience in our consumption is another waste and pollution contributor. A large part of this problem stems from products being overly packaged. Produced by Philip M Russell Ltd Web: http://www.hemelprivatetuition.co.uk