Biosphere Rules
THE BIOSPHERE RULES
Use a Parsimonious Palette
• 6 Natural Elements account for 99% weight of living things. “More perfect nature is fewer means it requires to operate. “ • Different materials add different performance charactertics - Potato chip Bag • A simple palette makes recycling easy where as all the products cannot be recycled back. Less Is More
Cycle Up Virtuously
• Nature: Repeated use of the same materials allowing biosphere towards more integrated and sustainable community. • Up cycling maintains the quality of products through generations • Virtuous Recycling relies on planned obsolescence.
Exploit the Power of Platforms
• General purpose platform leveraged over and again to create biodiversity. • Platforms are widely used in the industry to optimize. From material level platforms of interchangeable components • Materials are more fundamental platform on which components and final products are built.
SHAW INDUSTRIES
Produces Carpet tiles used as industrial flooring 95% of old carpet is ripped up and dumped in landfills Carpet tiles were made of potentially toxic and difficult to recycle PVC
Shaw recognised the need for a simple palette of nontoxic materials
Made the switch from PVC to Nylon 6 Developed and integrated production system capable of using old carpet tiles as raw materials and turning them
into new carpet tiles
Shaw made huge savings when the cost of oil increased Senior executives made a $2 million bet on unproven technologies.
Think Fewer Material
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Simplifying the number & types of material makes recycling cost effective Aeron desk chair 800 chemical compounds – 96% recyclable. Material choice- Screening of non toxic materials. Ciba Chemical Dyes. 16/1600 Materials must be physically capable of being up-cycled. Nylon 6, Nylon 66 Cost Effective: 75% of steel and 50% of Al is recycled. What designs will meet out product specifications using our existing material.
Use a Parsimonious Palette
• 6 Natural Elements account for 99% weight of living things. “More perfect nature is fewer means it requires to operate. “ • Different materials add different performance charactertics - Potato chip Bag • A simple palette makes recycling easy where as all the products cannot be recycled back. Less Is More
Cycle Up Virtuously
• Nature: Repeated use of the same materials allowing biosphere towards more integrated and sustainable community. • Up cycling maintains the quality of products through generations • Virtuous Recycling relies on planned obsolescence.
Exploit the Power of Platforms
• General purpose platform leveraged over and again to create biodiversity. • Platforms are widely used in the industry to optimize. From material level platforms of interchangeable components • Materials are more fundamental platform on which components and final products are built.
SHAW INDUSTRIES
Produces Carpet tiles used as industrial flooring 95% of old carpet is ripped up and dumped in landfills Carpet tiles were made of potentially toxic and difficult to recycle PVC
Shaw recognised the need for a simple palette of nontoxic materials
Made the switch from PVC to Nylon 6 Developed and integrated production system capable of using old carpet tiles as raw materials and turning them
into new carpet tiles
Shaw made huge savings when the cost of oil increased Senior executives made a $2 million bet on unproven technologies.
Think Fewer Material
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Simplifying the number & types of material makes recycling cost effective Aeron desk chair 800 chemical compounds – 96% recyclable. Material choice- Screening of non toxic materials. Ciba Chemical Dyes. 16/1600 Materials must be physically capable of being up-cycled. Nylon 6, Nylon 66 Cost Effective: 75% of steel and 50% of Al is recycled. What designs will meet out product specifications using our existing material.