DCO10003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Corn Syrup, Corn Starch, Downcycling
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Recycling is not sustainable it just makes our pro(cid:271)le(cid:373) so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e else"s pro(cid:271)le(cid:373). Costs of recycling: collection, transportation, storage, sorting, processing, disposal of waste, storage of recovered material, transportation, remanufacturing. All to make ourselves feel better about not having thrown it in the tip. Must cost less and use less energy than using fresh material in order for it to be efficiently recycled. Reuse: benefit must equal or outweigh the problem. Conundrum: sustainability is either waste deferral or post use promotion. No use fabricating reuse if the package is merely disposed of later on. From the victorian era manufacturing products with durable branded packages. Past productive disposal methods included burning waste to generate electricity which had more smog and pollution than electricity. The energy cycle> energy cannot be created or destroyed. All design outcomes must provide a pathway to the conservation of benefit and wellbeing. Reuse and recycle assume the inevitability of waste. Reduce eli(cid:373)i(cid:374)atio(cid:374) of pa(cid:272)kagi(cid:374)g. do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake ru(cid:271)(cid:271)ish!
