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The Story of Stuff showed us how stuff is processed through a system. This clearly described the operation of our economy which includes five processes: Extraction, Production, Distribution, Consumption, Disposal. Throughout these processes, we will begin to determine ethical dilemmas in the Story of Stuff.

In the story, the author mentioned that companies are running out of natural resources for their manufactures which affects to environment. While company should have responsibility for protecting environment, a huge number of natural resources which is exploited seriously for manufacture activities.

According to statistics, 80% of global forest are going to gone. The next point, there are a lot of toxic chemistry which are used in factory and are not tested carefully. Those toxic chemistry directly affect people health because manufactures put those toxic chemistry to their products as a protection material.

We could not ensure that materials are qualified for producing system, health, environment.

When toxic chemicals are moved to factories to produce final product, they cause impact to workers health. Because these poor workers need a job, they accept to work with toxics. Besides, the Story of Stuff also point out the problems of the radio with cost of $4.99. The corporation build their factory in many poor countries because they can take advantage of natural resources and labour in these countries.

This means they can buy resources and pay local workers with lower expense. After that, they will bring all products back to their countries. These local workers are impacted seriously on their health by toxics from workplace, but they receive lower wages and no insurance from companies. At developing countries, government does not have polices to protect their resident like developed countries. In addition, when companies place their factories at other countries, this means that they will move a large amount of trash and cause pollution to those countries.

Consumers are also a factor that pollute the environment, they go shopping more often that the last decades but tend not to reuse things anymore. According to the video, 99% of American do not reuse products that they got within 6 months. This increases the amount of trash disposed to the environment.

Recycling is small step to protect our environment, the most important thing is that consumers should be aware of what pollutes the environment and apply using environmentally friendly products in the daily basis. Owners only care about how much products they can sell to customers, they lower the price tag to attract customers, they even pay their employees so low to save the expenses. Government also focus on the country growth. They support corporation to enhance their productivity because more products are sold in the market which help increase countrys GDP. If many corporations decrease their productivity, the economy of country will go down. The Story of Stuff describe specifically our economy, profits of corporations, owners, government is more important than peoples health and environment.