Micro Sustainable DesignEco Friendly Products

Vilnius 2012

KEA Denmark – Stine, Maria, Sintija & Kasper

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Sustainability

What is Sustainability?

Definition of Sustainable Development:”Sustainable Development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”- Brundtland Commision 1987

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Why Sustainability

Population:”Day of 7 Billion” was declared by UN Population Division to be the 31st of October 2011

Ressources:Renewable - Nonrenewable

Aral Sea 1989 -2008

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∗ 1950's, used everyday

∗ Most are not biodegradable

∗ Disposal is a problem∗ The Pacific Plastic

Continent: floating island of plastic twice the size of Texas in the Pacific Ocean

Plastic∗ Landfills∗ Damage the

environment∗ The Sustainable

solution: Plastic Recycling

∗ Only a few percentage of the plastics worldwide are recycled, because it is a complex process

HDPE

PVC

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Basics of Plastic Recyling

The Plastic Recycling Circle

Sorting the plastic Machine that shredders

the plastic into tiny flakes The flakes are then

washed, dried and melted. The melted plastic is

extruded into pellets which are sold to end markets or manufacturers who then develop it into various plastic products

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Why Recycle?

Applications

Spun into fine threath-like material (carpets, fabrics like fleece)

Pellets are melted and thermoformed into plastic containers (garden products and packaching)

Environmental Advantages

Leads to oil conservation Decrease Discharge of

Greenhouse Gas: number of steps involved in recycling of plastic is fewer, it consumes less energy and creates less pollution.

It needs less energy Water usage in manufacturing

original plastic is 90% more compare the water used in the process of recycle plastic.

Landfills can be recovered

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Product Life Circle Approaches

Cradle to Grave

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Cradle to Grave

Life cycle analysis, which is the evaluation of the environmental impacts of a given product to when it becomes waste

Take-make-waste- model on which the industrial revolution is built

All this waste pollutes the air, water and soil, and valuable or recyclable materials are lost to incineration or landfill

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Cradle to Cradle

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German chemist Michael Braungart and American architect William McDonough- Revolutionists in cradle to cradle concept and two men that are trying to find a way how to ‘remake the way we make things’

Braungart and McDonough together founded ‘Design Chemistry’- a firm that works with business and governments to find C2C solutions to their problems

Cradle to Cradle - The Philosophy

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Cradle to Cradle - The Philosophy

All things manufactured should from beginning be designed with intention that they will eventually be recycled, either back to the soil, harmlessly, or into some other product

WASTE=FOOD Not necessarily the kind you eat, but the kind that feeds something useful

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A method that is much more environmentally friendly

The aim of C2C is to design production techniques that are not just efficient but are essentially waste free

Recycling, reusing, composting- tools that can be used in Cradle to Cradle framework

Cradle to Cradle - The Method

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∗ A beer bottle (in countries where it can be turned in for reuse/recycling)- it is made to be reused

∗ Herman Miller Aeron chair- almost two-thirds of each chair is recycled materials, and 94% of the entire chair is recyclable. It also adapts to virtually every body

A Cradle to Cradle Example

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Examples of Recycling Products

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Our Blog

www.summerschool.keablogs.dk

∗ Blog atmosphere∗ Useful links∗ You’re welcome to

debate and discuss on the site

∗ Rhetorical situation: ethos, pathos, logic.

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