Design minimise waste
One
billion items (500,000 tonnes) of clothing a year
are sent to landfill;
2,739,726
items of clothing sent to landfill everyday;
114,155
items of clothing sent to landfill every hour.
Almost
10,000 items of clothing go to landfill every five minutes in
the UK.
How can we reduce the
many kinds of waste created within the textiles industry, both pre
and post consumer?
Tools in this section
examine the potential forward impact of design decisions, around the
production use and eventual disposal of textile products, and aim to
create a design narrative in response to life-cycle analysis of the
product.
This strategy encourages
designers to minimise the waste that is created in the textile
industry, both pre and post consumer. It includes zero waste cutting
and recycling but it also introduces the idea at the outset that we
need to avoid producing stuff that does not work, that people do not
want.
“Of the total textile
fibre produced, up to 65% is lost, post-consumer, to landfill,
incineration or composting, which represents between 400,000 and
700,000 tonnes per annum in the UK. Of this, at least 50% is said to
be recyclable” (Allwood, 2006)
- Long-life textiles
- Recycle and re use of materials
- Re-working existing garments to produce up-cycled products
- Design multi-functional products
- Zero waste cutting
- Using new technologies to ‘re-surface’ pre-consumer polyester
Design
for zero waste
Zero waste is a philosophy
that encourages the redesign of resource life cycles so that all
products are reused. No trash is sent to landfills and incinerators.
The process recommended is one similar to the way that resources are
reused in nature. In industry this process involves creating
commodities out of traditional waste products, essentially making old
outputs new inputs for similar or different industrial sectors. An
example might be the cycle of a glass milk bottle. The primary input
(or resource) is silica-sand, which is formed into glass and then
into a bottle. The bottle is filled with milk and distributed to the
consumer. At this point, normal waste methods would see the bottle
disposed in a landfill or similar. But with a zero-waste method, the
bottle can be saddled at the time of sale with a deposit, which is
returned to the bearer upon redemption. The bottle is then washed,
refilled, and resold. The only material waste is the wash water, and
energy loss has been minimized.
Baguette Tables is a unique furniture design idea that reminds us about hungry people and tonnes of food that resorts, restaurants and supermarkets throw away every day.
The furniture design project aimed to start a discussion about food waste and ways to reuse and recycle materials. Baguette Tables show that the materials to build from are all around us, waiting for innovative and creative mind to use it in modern design and decorating.
The tables were made from stale baguettes that were supposed to be thrown away. These bread structures were part of a bread experience created by Gosia and Tomek Rygalik at the Vienna Design Week Laboratory, where people were surrounded by bread, eating bread dishes from bread tables.
Matt Gagnon’s “Paper
Tables” are one solution. These tables, which are made of recycled
paper with oil finish, are designed so both the positive and the
negative (both the piece and the mold) are functional beautiful table
pieces. And Zero Waste. Matt and I worked together at Frank Gehry’s
office,where a lot of the model making was with paper – so I find
it quite interesting that much of his work now also is with paper
used in unusual, elegant and beautiful ways.
Pablo Zamorano, Nacho Marti and Jacob Bek
Co-design of a chandelier with P6 and P7 pupils at Jon Paul II Primary School, Viewpark, Glasgow. Florence of We are curious and myself delivered 6 weeks of workshops with the school in which they researched and generated concepts for their environmentally friendly chandelier. We then helped them to whittle down and develop their ideas into 8 options, which we duly interpreted into 3 concepts. The school chose their favourite which we took through development and manufacture to finally be installed in the school's entrance hall in August 2009.
EJO REMY (DROOG DESIGN) . »You can’t lay down your memories. »1991.
Student at Pratt Institute, 2008
Tejo Remy Rag chair Droog Design Netherlands, 1991/2001
Alex Witko and Courtney Hunt, 2011
My experience
Last year, on the first year of my education one of our projects was to create a stall for Portobello Market. For this we had to find the object in the market that we will recycle and create a stall. Our object was a wooden box from the fruit, the other group had plastic crates and plastic hangers. When i was doing foundation we have reuse project, we suggest to find old thing and reuse it.
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