301081 Sustainable Design: Product Alternative Report and Analysis

This report explores the development of sustainable product alternatives to address the environmental crisis caused by single-use plastics. It begins by identifying the problem and key stakeholders, including humans, the environment, society, and government. The scope involves designing products to reduce plastic usage, emphasizing innovation and technological advancements. The report details a conceptual development process, including a sustainable design checklist to evaluate product viability and environmental impact. It also includes stakeholder mapping, scope definition, and a SWOT analysis. The assignment concludes with a call for responsible behavior and a reduction in products and services that contribute to environmental imbalance. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the design process, stakeholder analysis, and sustainable practices.

Sustainable
development of a
Product
ALTERNATIVE TO THE SINGLE USED PLASTIC PRODUCTS

Issue and concern
 There are billions of single used plastic bottles that are thrown away
into the environment each year.
 The adverse impact of it on the environment is beyond imaginable for
most of the users using and throwing away single used plastic bottles.
 Designing a product to deal with this huge problem, can be referred to
as crisis also to reduce the use of single used plastic bottles and
products is the topic of discussion here (Tucker and Askman, 2017).

Stakeholders
 Human beings.
 Environment.
 Society and
 Government.

Stakeholders’ map
 System stakeholders’ map showing
various stakeholders of the process.
 It includes plastic production,
product manufacturing, use of plastic
products, recycling post use of the
products and again production.
 The above process continues.

Scope and approach
 Developing a product to reduce the use of single used plastic products
is the objective and the approach must be suitable for the
development of alternative product / products to deal with the
immediate threat to the environment that singled used plastic products
pose.
 Innovation and technological growth has made huge impact on the day
to day lives of billions of people in all across the globe (Stoney, 2017).

Conceptual development of product
service system
 Conceptual development has to be started right from the use of single
used plastic products in the daily lives of people to designing a product
or system to reduce the use of it.
 Number of different usage of single products in the daily life of an
average person must be assessed carefully.

Sustainable design checklist
 Whether the product is really an alternative to the single used plastic
product it meant to replace?
 Whether the product has any harmful effects on the environment?
 Is the product sustainable in the long run?
 The cost of product must be within the range of the product it meant to
replace.
 Does the product must satisfy the requirements of the users?
 Is the product recyclable?

Future course of action
 Development of an alternative product to reduce the single used
plastic products.
 It is important to be responsible and reduce the use of all products and
services which are creating and increasing the environmental
imbalance. Behaving in responsible manner is the only way forward to
reduce the harmful effects of different products and services on the
environment (Grace, 2016).

References:
 Grace, R. (2016). Building Effective Interdisciplinary Product
Development Teams. Plastics Engineering, 72(4), pp.4-6.
 Stoney, C. (2017). Integrity of Active Components of Botanical Products
Used in Complementary and Alternative Medicine. JAMA, 307(24),
p.1995.
 Tucker, D. and Askman, T. (2017). Using Roundtable Plastic Design
Reviews to Improve Tooling for New-Product Development. Plastics
Engineering, 73(1), pp.38-43.