Choose a product you would like to have in this place.
A water filter attached to the tap.
a. What are you trying to accomplish ?
To buy/throw less plastic bottles of water and rather filter tap water.
b. How can you re-design this product to make it more sustainable ? Use the material choices graph.
Most of the water filters attached to the tap that exist on the market are made of ABS (ACRYLONITRILE BUTADIENE STYRENE), a polymer also used for the manufacture of toys, telephones, cars, household appliances and others. We could recycle these discarded objects to make water filters.
c. What are the sustainable design principles you have used ?
The re-use of object that had served yet. Waste to wealth (upcycling).
d. What are the economic and environmental benefits of your new design ?
Economic : long terme costumers and the customer saves also money by not buying bottle of water.
Environmental : less waste, reuse, upcycle, less bottle of water buyed and throwed.
e. Which circular business model can you adopt instead of linear ?
A circular business model where the costumer can get a reduction on the price (or even a free) water filter if he brings back products (like children toys, telephones, cars, household appliances) made from ABS that he no longer uses (-->less waste of theses products too).
f. If you look at the butterfly diagram, to which cycle does your product belong?
My product belong to the technical cycle (recycle, refurbish, remanufacture, reuse, redistribute).