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07/28/2016
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When you purchase a product or service, you consider the social and environmental impacts of the acquisition, in addition to immediate cost-effective? To know whether, for example, there was a slave or child labor involved in manufacturing the product?
Akatu Institute provides an online test (http://tcc.akatu.org.br/) that assesses the degree of consciousness of people or communities when they consume.
On TV Sheet, the President of Akatu, Helio Mattar, said the goal of the campaign is that people leave the consumerist society and move to a society's well-being. "In consumer society, typically, the consumer buys what he does not need, with money he does not have, to impress those he dislikes."
According to research by the Credit Protection Service (SPC Brazil) and the National Confederation of Shopkeepers (CNLDL), only 30% of Brazilians are conscious consumers, to consider issues that go beyond the financial cost-benefit immediately when buying a product or service.
Source: A Tarde
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