Graphics - Society and The Environment - Flashcards in GCSE Design & Technology: Graphics

1. Repair items rather than fully replace them (6)
5. Protect a new invention that could have an 'industrial application'. Patents last for 20 years. (7)
6. Consumers can refuse to buy a product if they think it has too much packaging (6)
8. Using materials economically, e.g. tessellating packaging nets, avoid unnecessary packaging, selling chocs in paper bags rather than plastic try and cardboard (6)
9. Materials can be used again to make new products. This helps to save resources however environmentally unfriendly by-products can be produced in the process of recycling and can be more expensive than using new materials. (7)
10. Consumers can think seriously about whether they need to replace items so often e.g. upgrading phones every year. Designers can re-think designs - use fewer parts, less harmful production process (2, 5)

2. Protects a new design's shape and appearance e.g. car body shape. Stops other people from copying the design. Can register a design for 25 years and is protected throughout the EU (10, 6)
3. Companies consider whether: using the product might harm people/envrionment, manufacture of the product harms people/environment, recycled/recyclable/biodegradable materials could be used (5, 12)
4. Designers have to be sensitive to feelings of groups in society. No colours, symbols, styles or images can't offend anyone for political, religious, gender or cultural reasons. (9, 6)
7. Protects written, drawn and recorded work like books, comics, art, music. It runs out after a certain length of time - for books it's 70 years after the author's death (9, 3)

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