Business
"Yarn producer, Aquafil has designed the ECONYL® Regeneration System, which enables Nylon 6 waste to be regenerated into new Nylon 6 with no loss of quality. Key to success is the Reclaiming Programme, an essential tool to facilitate a reverse supply chain and ensure reliable materials inputs. Aquafil Group
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Netflix's dystopian psychological thriller TV show Black Mirror highlights the ways financial barriers can prevent people from accessing and maintaining healthcare in its first episode “Common People” (Season 7, Episode 1) . It demonstrates how even innovative medical technologies can become inaccessible and unethical when their costs exceed what
Science & Tech
In the recent century, polymeric materials experienced a surge in popularity in the electrical and electronic equipment industry (EEE) due to their natural insulator properties. Consequently, the waste from the EEE industry, namely electronic waste (e-waste), grew as old appliances were replaced by newer ones [1]. According to a
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Osto•me fashion brand owner Paula Sojo designs ostomy covers that transform a medical device into a personal accessory. After undergoing ostomy surgery as part of her fight against Crohn’s disease, which involves redirecting stool or urine outside the body into a pouch system, Sojo understands the personal impact
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This study consisted of an investigation of the thermo-mechanical properties of post-consumer high impact polystyrene (HIPS) through five consecutive injection moulding steps to simulating the recycling cycles. The selectively collected HIPS residue was ground, washed only in water, dried, agglutinated and then moulded as a set of mechanical
Science & Tech
Recycling has become over the years an ecological necessity and an important economic issue, as the current use of food packaging (among others) is constantly increasing and generates the production of a great diversity of waste [1], [2], [3], [4]. The interest in developing processes for processing consumer materials such
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Designed by IKEA’s Ingka Group, these solar panel kits rethink how renewable energy can be made accessible to everyday consumers. IKEA Energy Services, in partnership with Svea Solar, making Belgium the second market globally to offer this sustainable, cost-saving solution for the home (Solar energy for the many,
Special Interest
What if the inconsistency and limited availability of Marble Plastics waste became a part of the selling point, rather than being a disadvantage. During my research into consumer psychology I found that "Moreover, limited drops are not just about scarcity. They are about storytelling and intention. Brands often design
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This blog article from Kids’ Meals explores the personal impact of lunch-bag decorating on both the children experiencing food insecurity and the volunteers who add personal artistic touches to each bag. It provides an example of an initiative designed to address food insecurity through community volunteerism while bringing an
Special Interest
In a series of studies in which consumers assembled IKEA boxes, folded origami, and built sets of Legos, we demonstrate and investigate the boundary conditions for what we term the “IKEA effect” – the increase in valuation of self-made products. Participants saw their amateurish creations – of both utilitarian and hedonic
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The most important factors affecting degradation of polymers are thermal treatment, amount of shear stress acting on the polymer and residence time ,i.e. the time for which the polymer melt is subject to certain thermal and shear effects (Karlsson et al.2002). PS is known to follow an end-
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Design aesthetics, which have received increasing attention from researchers in fields, such as ergonomics, neuroscience, and marketing can attract consumers to a product and persuade them to buy it. The aesthetic process is rapid and implicit and can result in sensory pleasure and delight (Goldman, 2001; Handy et al., 2008)