End-of-life analysis of biodegradable plastics for industrial design purposes
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Selim I., Kandikjan T., Lazarevska A. M.
Abstract
Today, academic community and manufacturers are
making efforts to develop plastics that have short time span in order to
accommodate environmental, social and economic implications. Eventually,
biodegradable plastics are gaining attention among designers and
companies as materials that can imitate the benefits of petrol based plastics
having the capability of degradation. The selection of these materials
has influence on the production facilities, consumer use and disposal
methods. These requirements are challenging, but in parallel they provide
opportunities for designers in the product development process as they
influence the production facilities, consumer use and disposal methods.
The designers should be able to solve the problem by designing products
that fulfill both the needs of biodegradability and user acceptance. In order
to adopt the biodegradability requirements in the design process, the implication
on the different phases of the product life cycle have to be reviewed.
Unfortunately, since these materials are remarkably new in the
industry, there is a lack of information for these environmental friendly materials
in the literature review. Thus, in the scope of this research, based
on currently available sources an adapted industrial design scheme is developed
to demonstrate the end-of-life cycle analysis of biodegradable
plastics.
making efforts to develop plastics that have short time span in order to
accommodate environmental, social and economic implications. Eventually,
biodegradable plastics are gaining attention among designers and
companies as materials that can imitate the benefits of petrol based plastics
having the capability of degradation. The selection of these materials
has influence on the production facilities, consumer use and disposal
methods. These requirements are challenging, but in parallel they provide
opportunities for designers in the product development process as they
influence the production facilities, consumer use and disposal methods.
The designers should be able to solve the problem by designing products
that fulfill both the needs of biodegradability and user acceptance. In order
to adopt the biodegradability requirements in the design process, the implication
on the different phases of the product life cycle have to be reviewed.
Unfortunately, since these materials are remarkably new in the
industry, there is a lack of information for these environmental friendly materials
in the literature review. Thus, in the scope of this research, based
on currently available sources an adapted industrial design scheme is developed
to demonstrate the end-of-life cycle analysis of biodegradable
plastics.
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