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THE IMPORTANCE OF
END-OF-LIFE-MAINTENANCE
Without proper maintenance, debris can have detrimental effects on the environment.
"Plastic waste makes up 90% of marine debris."
- What a Waste: An Updated Look into the Future of Solid Waste Management (worldbank.org)
“In 2016, the world generated 242 million tonnes of plastic
waste - 12 percent
of all municipal
solid waste.”
“The world generates
2.01 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste annually, with at least
33 percent of that - extremely conservatively - not managed in
an environmentally
safe manner.”
Ways Designers Can Make a Difference
Employ a
Circular Economy
A circular economy minimises
resource input, waste, emissions
and energy leakage. It can be
achieved through long-lasting design, maintenance, repair, reuse and recycling. It contrasts to a linear economy which extracts resources,
uses them, then throws them away.
Design
Reusable Packaging
Packaging which has been conceived, designed and marketed to carry out multiple trips in its lifetime by being refilled or reused for the same purpose for which it was conceived.
Utilize Extended Producer Responsibility Schemes
These systems are set up to ensure that producers bear the financial or financial and organisational responsibility for the management of waste stage of a product’s life cycle.
By modulating the fees payable by producers for placing packaging on the market, EPR schemes allow producers and EU countries to encourage the design of products and their components which are more
respective of the environment.
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