Thursday
Apr092009
green screw
Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 04:19PM
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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