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Thursday
Apr092009

green screw

I've been toying with ideas around making products more easy to separate for recycling.  Many products have too many hidden clips etc. What if on the back of a product, one green annodised screw denoted that by undoing it, the whole products constituent parts/materials would be easily separated.  Designing with this in mind would bring about different aesthetics.  Rather than try and hide the methods of fixing, we could make them a feature of the design.  A friend read this and pointed out that it wouldn't work on a car! I had had smaller electronic devices (radio's, mobile phones, TV remotes) in mind when I was musing.

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