Mobile Phones- Design and the environment
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- Created on: 24-05-16 11:58
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- Mobile Phones- Design and the Environment
- Raw Material Extraction and Process
- Extracting raw materials can impact the environment such as oil spills or damage to the landscape from mining
- To minimise the impact: -mobile phones are smaller, reducing the quantity of material in the phone
- To minimise the impact: -use a percentage of recycled material to reduce the amount of new material needed
- Manafacture
- Material Waste
- Use of Lean Manufacturing such as injection moulding is automated and uses orecuse quanities of material makng it very accurate so no materials are wasted
- Just In Time manufacturing ensure manufactures aren't left with unsold stock-wasting materials
- Energy Consumption
- sustainable energy systems such as solar, wind and biofuels contribute to production e.g., smart vile
- Energy recovery systems recycles wasted energy such as heat
- Toxic Emissions
- Such as soldering or injection moulding are extracted and filtered before released to atmosphere
- Material Waste
- Distribution
- Phones have become smaller, meaning less packaging is needed.
- Replacing polystyrene with shaped card that has been recycled
- Regular shaped packin to maximise how many phones can fit on a pallet and be transported to reduce amount of tips
- Instructions manuals now available only electronically
- Use
- Charging phones consumes energy lithium-ion batteries now need less of a frequent charge
- Smart charges switch off when phone is fully charged or solar panel chargers
- Energy saving features such as low power mode
- Disposal
- iPhone use software updates to extend their life
- Phone case to protect phones
- Shape Memory Alloy fixings
- Phones are made from recyclable materials such as ABS and Aluminium
- Instructions on how to dispose and apples recycling surface
- Raw Material Extraction and Process
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