Sustainability: Beware of fake eco-friendly products!

What makes a truly sustainable product? This episode covers design for disassembly, monstrous hybrids, innovative new materials borrowed from nature (like mushrooms!), and faux environmental products. Join us to learn how glues and tapes make recycling more difficult, while 3D printing reduces the need for these fasteners.

We invite you to comment below with questions and suggestions on how to make industrial design more sustainable.

Chapters
0:00 Meet Phnam and Mardis Bagley
0:34 Recycling is hard
1:25 Design for disassembly
1:56 Parts and monstrous hybrids
4:08 Connectors
5:30 3D printing can help
6:27 Packaging
8:43 What you can do to help
10:30 Use your voice
11:19 Tell us what you think

#futurefuture #nonfiction #sustainability

[ignaciadiaz]

I actually by a girl from my University (UDLA) who is working and teaching us about mycelium and is nice how it can be incorporated into the design and nice to hear it in your video. I'm loving all your videos

[sallyfeast]

Hi, I enjoyed the video. It was great to hear your talk about ways to be more eco friendly when considering the design of products and packaging.
However, with reference to your comment at the end about 'healthier happier people and animals' I feel the need to point out that plastic made out of cows milk is not something that helps cows to be happier. Cow milk is meant to be for baby cows, it is not meant for humans to steal and consume either by drinking or making into plastic. The dairy industry is extremely cruel. Please watch Dairy is Scary - a 5 minute film on YouTube in order to see the point I am referring to. Thank you.

[renatoruizm]

Wow! what an amazing video, the quality of the information inside of it is HUUGEEEE!!! Thank you Phnam & Mardis!!! I didn't know that sea-weed and milk plastics exists. Also, it is the first time I hear about Design for dissambly.
Greetings from Peru!

[adityatheyoutuber]

hello Sir and Mam.
Thankyou soooo❤❤ very much there was a ton of information that actually opened my mind. I am about to start a small gig that includes product selling. but there is acrylic sheet involved in the making process so I was soo worried because its not fully dissolvable. so I was thinking of other ways other to compensate. then I found you guys and now I know where exactly I can work and make things better.
🙏🙏

[andreamai]

I wish more packaging was designed with more potential for reuse rather than just recycling.

[kaitlinroth]

your channel is awesome! thank you for these videos!

[KTGgraff]

The fact that videos like this only get 500+ views is the reason the planet is dying