Arnold Barlow, Senior Manager in UPS Sustainability Solutions taking about general reduction of the environmental impact when it comes to design and transportation of a product.
Paul Whittey, Penrose Products
According to The Eco-Design Manifesto:
1. Design to satisfy real needs as opposed to transient, fashionable or market-driven needs.
The packaging is very fashionable, resembles the idea of the company as well as the quality (luxury products).
2. Design to minimise the ecological footprint of the product/material/service product, i.e.
reduce resource consumption, including energy and water.
The recourses used for the packaging are made out of the used wool/cotton this way reducing consumption of energy used for production.
4. Design to enable the separation of components of the product/material or service product
at the end of life in order to encourage recycling or reuse of materials and/or components.
The separation of the products after unpacking is very uncomplicated and easy to use or recycle.
5. Design to exclude the use of substances toxic or hazardous to human and other forms of
life at all stages of the product/material/service product's lifecycle.
No toxic or hazardous substances used in order to produce the packaging, the opposite - the recourses are the same as for the products.
7. Design to use locally available materials and resources wherever possible (thinking
globally but acting locally).
The products used for packaging production are locally produced and used.
9. Design to dematerialise products into services wherever feasible.
10. Design to maximise a product/material/service product's benefits to communities.
The packaging for the pillows becomes a linen bin after unpacking.
11. Design to encourage modularity in design to permit sequential purchases, as needs require
and funds permit, to facilitate repair/reuse and to improve functionality.
The functionality of a pillow packaging is quite intelligent and stimulating when it becomes a linen bin, this way not only improving functionality to an upper level, but saving money and energy of buying new linen bins, which are quite expensive.
13. Publish eco-pluralistic designs in the public domain for everyone's benefit, especially
those designs that commerce will not manufacture.
This kind of packaging is a stimulus to other pillow and duvet producers, to turn it into something very useful.
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