Task 2b:Sustainable consumption

Reflection : The story of electronics and Life psycle-ology

After watching short video of "Life psycle-ology" and "The story of electronics"，it gives me good understanding of how the e-product's made and seriously effecting our daily life and the environment. In another hand these two video shows how evil the manufacturer just focus on profits and not considering the impact of worker, consumer and the environment.

In the video "the story of electronics" it tells how the design is toxic for the people and the planet. Usually i will buy new stuff when the market advertise new attractive product which it draws my attention or some time when the old one is no long to use, when these product get old i throw them into garbage bin, i never think about how waste i am and never know how these throw away product end up to. But the video tells me the true, the way that i am doing is not correct, i shouldn't be attracted by the new product, i should consider more about do i really need it.

Also the video educated my knowledge of marketing. the manufacturer's key strategy for the company is to sale more, make the product thrown away quickly then they can make out of profit.

Today's electronics that we use every day (such as computers, cell phones, tv) are hard to upgrade, easy to break and impractical to repair. also the manufacturer's using lots of toxic chemicals to produce the product such as pvc, mercury, solvents and flame retardants which these chemical will harm to the worker health and environment. the impact of these product is end up become the mountains of e-waste. the impact report shows that "each year we make 25 millon tons of e-waste which gets dumped,burned or recycled". How scary is that.

As an design student i think is the time to say no to "toxics in and toxics out". the most effective way to reduce the impact on the environment is to integrate environmental considerations into the product development process. to do this, we must consider the environmental impact of materials, energy and toxicity across an e-product's entire life cycle. we can make the product more modular, when one part broke can use new piece to repair, also can make product longer lasting, toxic free and can be recycle.

Task 3 Ecoredesign (Disassembly kettle)

The product that we disassembly is kettle. this product take us about 2 hours to speared in to parts. The hardest of this product is have to use many different fasteners to get the screws out.

In this exercise we identify the product materials and discusses the process of how the parts made. This kettle predominantly use material of polyproperly. The design of this product is simply,but there is challenge of hard to take out the heating system. Only this part it has 8 screws. After the disassembly we find out all the material of this product ended up have to go to landfill, nothing can be really recycle that is really waste.

The report from the greenfly shows that the part that has most environment impact is the heating system. (It took long time to separate it.) This result also shows that the design company didn't really consider about the environment when they design.

For redesign this product we can do better so don't have to waste that much. we consider to reduce the require of using fastener, there for most of the part can be use technique of self lock, in this way manufactory can reduce the cost of product and also can easy to get the product recycle which is more friendly for the environment.

Group member:

Guida Arezzi

Stanley Darmawan

Xiaoling Li

Jen Jun Zhu

katty

Task 2: Reflection of Recycling

The video shows the process of waste products get recycle into a new product. after watch these video i realist that recycle is very important for us because it relate to our environment condition.

What is recycle? Recycle is the way to prevent waster of potentially useful materials, is to reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, it can reduce energy usage, save environmental conditions which reduces pollution, saves natural resources and saves space for waste disposal.

Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass,paper,metal,plastic,textiles and electronics. In the video shows that the machine system is very useful and powerful which can identify the material type and separate it in to different section then give them a new life to become a new product. However this machine still not the best solution for the waste problem. The better solution to reduce waste is on design which is depends on what material they made from,how long can the product use for and can the product reuse.

As an design student we have to consider about the environment Issue before we design, because we don't want our environment get pollute. There are three key factors we have to think about: reduce,reuse and recycle. By doing so we better to use green material and always think about sustainability.

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

In the Ecological footprint quiz result shows that we need 3.64 plant earths if everyone lived with my lifestyle . My footprint in global hectares by consumption category and footprint share by biome total are 57.17.

After this quiz i feel a bit guilty to the environment. Because i never really think about everything that i do will affect the world so much which from the small things: foods to the use goods. Honestly i thought i did do the right thing, such as didn't create much waste, save things, not buy much unnecessary stuff and recycle most goods. But the result show i still not good enough so i need to try much more harder not to harm the environment and as an industrial design student we really need to think about the design is sustainable and can be recycle after use.

In conclusion, this ecological footprint centre is very useful, it use the easy way to tell what we do in the lifestyle affecting the planet and tell everyone need to care about the environment.

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