Source: AFP

We Need to Stop Wasting Our Money On Things We Don’t Need

How hyper-consumerism hurts the planet and society

Victoria Halina
4 min readNov 25, 2019

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It’s November, and there sure are no shortages of shopping events — with Black Friday in the U.S. on November 29th this year, and Singles’ Day in China on November 11th — consumers are set to spend more than $45 billion in total. With China’s average urban household disposable…

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Victoria Halina

Explorer, starter, change agent. Polymath — you’ll tell by my writing. Founder at www.alpacacoffee.co.uk — single origin coffee in plastic free packaging.