{"id":9291,"date":"2023-12-19T07:18:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T06:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=9291"},"modified":"2023-12-19T07:18:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T06:18:31","slug":"childrens-toy-ads-are-an-environmental-nightmare-heres-how-parents-can-deal-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/12\/19\/childrens-toy-ads-are-an-environmental-nightmare-heres-how-parents-can-deal-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertisements for children&#039;s toys are an environmental nightmare - here&#039;s how parents can deal with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>As Christmas approaches, many children experience the &quot;gimme-gimmes&quot; and write a list of toys they hope Santa will bring. That is to be expected. Toys give children a chance to learn and be curious, engage their imagination in play and socialize with others. <\/span><span>unfortunately,\u00a0<\/span><span>80 % of all toys<\/span><span>\u00a0it ends up in landfills, incinerators or the ocean. The toy industry consumes\u00a0<\/span><span>40 tons of plastics<\/span><span>\u00a0for every $1 million it generates in revenue, and has\u00a0<\/span><span>excessive carbon footprint <\/span><span>. <\/span><span>Toys can contribute to a child&#039;s development and at the same time threaten his health and well-being through pollution. Advertisers perpetuate this paradox and children are vulnerable to their persuasive tactics. <\/span><span>Advertisers know that children are an essential part of the consumer decision cycle and persuade them to nag their parents to part with their hard-earned money. Creating an emotional connection to toys in children&#039;s minds is key \u2013 the association with food, entertainment, clothing and music creates a spiral of desire associated with the brand. ( <em>Michelle Cowley-Cunningham, Dublin City University<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Christmas approaches, many children experience \u201egimme-gimmes\u201c and write down a list of toys they hope Santa will bring. That\u2019s to be expected. Toys give children a chance to learn and be curious, engage their imaginations in play, and socialize with others. Unfortunately, 80% of all toys end up in landfills, incinerators, or the ocean. The toy industry consumes 40% of [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena","category-uhlikova-stopa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}