Overconsumption as a global issue

The number of regions suffering from overconsumption is rapidly increasing these days. Overconsumption is at the foundation of a slew of global problems. Waste produces a slew of issues in the social, environmental, and economic realms. Consequences include an ever-increasing amount of harmful compounds discharged, imbalanced resource allocation, deforestation, overfishing, and so on. It is evident that all of these issues are intertwined and all of them are the result of our own actions. However, an increasing number of people are becoming aware of the gravity of the issue. As a result, a variety of steps are adopted, and some countries have been able to partially mitigate the consequences of excessive consumption. For instance, the lawmakers in South Korea decided to solve it by making people pay for what they waste. They established 6000 devices, the goal of which is to collect leftovers and penalty refunds for them. So this action drastically changed the situation by increasing the percentage of recycled food from 2% up to 95% in 3 decades.