Designing with Recycled Materials
Description
Using recycled materials makes sense, but also presents designers with a unique set of challenges, because they must work within the parameters of the materials' properties. This program profiles two companies who have successfully created products from recycled goods. London-based Pli Design produced a stackable chair made from recycled Sony PlayStations, after feeding shredded game consoles through an extruder to learn what kinds of polymers they contained, then determining how these would impact strength and flexibility of the final design. Tooling and other issues of large-scale plastics recycling are addressed as an appliance manufacturer turns discarded refrigerators into parts for washing machines, cars, and flower pots.
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25 min
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Subjects
- Branding (Marketing) (220)
- Marketing (459)
- Conservation of natural resources (540)
- Environmental protection (361)
- Science (827)
- Mechanical engineering (172)
- Engineering (340)
- Mathematics (1400)
- Production management (42)
- Operations research (43)
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Date of Publication
[2011], c2011
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