CP5065-2021S1-2A07-GROUP 1
WEEK 6
Sustainable Design
We learn that a typical product life cycle consists of 6 stages, starting with the raw materials and ending when the product reaches its end of life.
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Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) is a technique used by product designers to assess the environmental implications associated with all stages of a product's life, from raw material extraction to materials processing, manufacture, distribution, usage, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling.
ACTIVITY 1
The task was to try out and complete the product life cycle of papers
ACTIVITY 2
Construct a product life cycle of your chemical product.
Provide an explanation for each life cycle stage on the completed diagram
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CRADLE-TO-CRADLE DESIGN
Cradle-to-Cradle Design, also known simply as C2C, is a biomimetic approach to the design of products and systems that emulates nature's processes.
WE CHOOSE:
Nutrients become nutrients again
- As stated in our design, we reuse cooking oil so that it does not harm the environment whether it is to marine animals or to the atmosphere.
- Even when our design is of little use to the community, it can still be reused for other purposes as it can be broken down into parts as an individual for its own purposes
Celebrate diversity
- Our product allows the used cooking oil to be purified and reused. Therefore it prevents the UCO from being released into the environment. This follows the concept of celebrating diversity, where our product reveals opportunities to improve quality.