That is me with my third OU assignment question, - Describe the argument that a UK consumer society is turning the UK into a throw away society.
Basically we used to be an industrialised society with the focus being on work and manufacturing of goods, now the focus is on what your money can buy and what image you have. How you are seen depends on your affluence andability to have access to valuable resources so people are 'seduced' into upping their image by discarding unwanted goods in favour of up to date versions. On the other end of the scale there are the 'oppressed' those who are constrained by financial or other reasons.