Steel to steel. Aluminum to aluminum. Copper to copper. Carpet to carpet. Eliminating waste: all products made of nutrients manufactured with clean and healthy chemicals. Siemens Gamesa wind turbine blades are now recyclable along with all the steel, aluminum and copper infinitely recyclable with renewably powered electricity.
As a practicing designer and recently nominated sustainability lead, I struggle with the idea of the carpet, or anything actually. How do we saddle the cost of recycling? A carpet manufacturer or seller may not have the means to offer chemical recycling at an economically viable rate. So, this begs the question that this model only suits organisation’s with enough scale to make it work. The firm I work for is design consultancy. As the designer, I feel responsible for delivery a solution that satisfies an ecological need, but one that comes at a significant cost to the client. In some cases, creating a cradle to cradle financial model around the technical solution can be presented, but is often a hard bargain. Anyone with any experience able to help?
Steel to steel. Aluminum to aluminum. Copper to copper. Carpet to carpet. Eliminating waste: all products made of nutrients manufactured with clean and healthy chemicals. Siemens Gamesa wind turbine blades are now recyclable along with all the steel, aluminum and copper infinitely recyclable with renewably powered electricity.
As a practicing designer and recently nominated sustainability lead, I struggle with the idea of the carpet, or anything actually. How do we saddle the cost of recycling? A carpet manufacturer or seller may not have the means to offer chemical recycling at an economically viable rate. So, this begs the question that this model only suits organisation’s with enough scale to make it work.
The firm I work for is design consultancy. As the designer, I feel responsible for delivery a solution that satisfies an ecological need, but one that comes at a significant cost to the client. In some cases, creating a cradle to cradle financial model around the technical solution can be presented, but is often a hard bargain. Anyone with any experience able to help?