CIWM TZW Conference_EcodesignCentre_Dec11

ecodesign TZW Conference 2011 Frank, Director @ecodesigncentre www.ecodesigncentre.org www.edcshare.org @frank_oconnor

98% of products are thrown away within 6 months Is this the end user? source: Edwin Datschefski & United NaMona University Image source: Chris Jordan

waste is a social crime

Source: ads-ngo.com

society has to change

responsibility3800children die each dayfrom diseases associatedwith lack of access to safedrinking water, inadequatesanitation and poor hygiene water accesssource: UN & Flickr

responsibility polluMon

we have to change

valuable resources are wasted 60,000tonnesof Christmas decorationswere imported into the UKfrom China in 2006 Source: NEF / Image source: Flickr

we over consume 44 million cups per day in US Source: Chris Jordan

too much choice?

design has to change

we have to change

80%of environmentalimpactscan be locked-in atthe design stage

ecodesign requires life cycle thinking most designers are concerned with these stagestake make buy/use wasterecycle re--manufacture re-use

100 European SMEDevelop sector specific LCA webtool

NOMAGIC MATERIALS

product service systems.!

source: ser_is_snarkish

source: ZIPcars

ource: Chris Jordan Source: wiki.umd.edu

design

Source: hybridcars.com

Source: dailymail.co.uk

source: Edward Burtynsky

a story about feet!……. and boxes.!

this is reality!!

“designed, made, remade in Wales. zero waste”

Orangebox

Source: gadling.com

my appeal.no more waste, only resource.use instead of consume.only consume food & drink.transform, don’t destroy.

my appeal.think system, true cost.don’t accept ‘that’s the way it is’.take responsibility, lead.believe, no fear.

www.ecodesigncentre.org www.edcshare.org

To be… We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-‐be with every other thing. – Thich Nhat Hanh

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