Cradle-to-Cradle Design: creating healthy emissions — a strategy for eco-effective product and system design
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The document discusses cradle-to-cradle design, emphasizing eco-effective product and system design that aims for sustainability and reducing waste. It contrasts traditional linear industrial processes with eco-effective approaches, where products are designed for longevity and the ability to return to natural or industrial cycles. Five steps for implementing this design philosophy are outlined, encouraging a shift in perspective on sustainability and product quality.
Cradle-to-Cradle Design: creating healthy emissions — a strategy for eco-effective product and system design
- 1. Cradle-to-Cradle Design creating healthy emissions — a strategy for eco-effective product and system design EAP4 Shou-Hui Wang
- 2. Vocabulary • efficient — working or operating quickly and properly in an organised way • effective — successful or achieving the results that you want • industry — the companies and activities involved in the process of producing goods for sale, especially in a factory or special area. • sustainable - causing little or no damage to the environment, and being able to last for a long time • decompose — become gradually damaged (into small pieces or elements) or worse in quality
- 3. What is ‘Cradle-to-Cradle’ Design? • A study of design in order to make every product be designed with this further use! • design a native of nature! • from eco-efficiency to eco-effectiveness
- 4. From Cradle to Grave: original industrial model • one-way, linear flow of materials through industrial systems • more than 90% of materials extracted to make durable goods become waste immediately — only 5% can be made of the product
- 5. Eco-efficiency? • Eco-efficiency is calculated by dividing the ‘value’ of a product by its ‘environmental impact’ • The Wuppertal Institute define it as a strategy to reduce the use of materials in the economy in order to reduce undesirable environmental impacts • It begins with that industry is 100% bad
- 6. ‘Less Bad’ is No Good • ‘Small is Beautiful’? • ‘Downcycle’ — the inevitable problem of recycle • Most of products are never designed with this further use
- 7. So, what is eco- effectiveness? • Here are some examples: • 1. buildings produce more energy than they consume • 2. factories that produce effluents that are drinking water • 3. when an useful life of products is over, they can entirely decompose back to nature, or return to industrial cycles to supply high quality raw materials for new products
- 8. Photographed by Ira Goldstein, CC-BY-SA 2010
- 9. Photographed by Pontafon, CC-BY-SA 2009
- 13. 5 steps process Step 1: Free of known culprits Step 2: Personal preferences Step 3: The passive positive list Step 4: The active positive list Step 5: Reinvention
- 14. Question 1. Do you believe that people have to sacrifice their life quality, such as economy and delights, for a sustainable life? 2. Do you support that companies provide ‘a terminable service of a product’ instead of ‘a product’ to customer is a remedy of waste issue? 3. Do you have any idea of something in our daily life which can be innovated by ‘cradle-to-cradle’ method?