a. What are you trying to accomplish?
I’m trying to upcycle those used paper bags.
b. How can you re-design this product to make it more sustainable? Use the material choices graph.
I’ll transform those used paper bags into containers by folding them into specific shapes in order to upcycling them.
c. What are the sustainable design principles you have used?
Business Model: Waste to wealth (upcycling)
d. What are the economic and environmental benefits of your new design?
Economically, using recycled paper bags instead of plastic or acrylic costs less. And less production of chemical products helps reduce the toxic emission.
e. Which circular business model can you adopt instead of linear?
People are encouraged to collect their waste paper bags and send them back in order to get some incentives.
f. If you look at the butterfly diagram, to which cycle does your product belong?
It belongs to the technical cycles.