Sentence examples for throwaway consumer from inspiring English sources

When a culture takes root, it grows, and we have been subtly indoctrinated by a throwaway consumer culture that we have warmly embraced.

The trees often became pulp, which in turn became rayon and cellophane to make disposable diapers and other throwaway consumer products.

It criticized our throwaway consumer culture, called for the world to undergo an "ecological conversion," and demanded binding steps to limit carbon emissions, as well as global efforts to save the oceans and other threatened natural environments.

As a pointed dig at the throwaway consumer culture created by the likes of ad man Don Draper, we see this clean-cut family of the 1960s drive off from a beautiful field as the camera pans to the rubbish they've left behind.

It is not simply a question of the broad outlines being well-worn, but of the numerous tropes deployed: the mad scientist releasing the virus; the millenarian cults and cannibal gangs; the survivors subsisting, ironically, on throwaway consumer items; the tech-noir and cyber-punk stylings; flooded cities; the vine-wrapped skyscrapers.

The US mindset is typifying a throwaway consumer culture.

In our "throwaway society" consumer products are becoming ever cheaper as advances in technology and manufacturing cut down production costs.

What is striking -- and poignant -- about the lowriding movement is the tender devotion lavished on what would otherwise be the throwaways of consumer car culture.

The survival of the format may speak to a frugal strain among some immigrants, particularly those who are older, who seem more reluctant to embrace the throwaway, ever-modernizing consumer culture of America.

The survival of the VHS format may speak to a frugal strain among some immigrants, particularly those that are older, who seem more reluctant to embrace the throwaway, ever-modernizing consumer culture of America.

Lars Fisk's carved marble versions of consumer throwaways, like the takeout coffee cup lying inconspicuously in a corner of a Queens Museum gallery, have turned up in Chelsea, as have Yasue Maetake's filigreed, vegetal assemblages of paper and steel.