Choose a product you would like to have in this place.
Mattresses
1. What are you trying to accomplish?
I would like to build reusable and recyclable mattresses.
2. How can you re-design this product to make it more sustainable? Use the material choices graph.
Instead of plastic spring in the mattresses，I will produce spring with reusable stainless steels. Containing organic cotton and lambswool, I will use 50% fewer adhesives making it easier to disassemble and recycle. Customers will receive an incentive to return the mattress instead of throwing it away so it can be reused, recycled, or upcycled.
3. What are the sustainable design principles you have used?
I have used ‘keep looping’ principle because I increase the re-use of mattresses. Customers are encouraged to return the mattress instead of throwing it away so it can be reused, recycled, or upcycled.
4.What are the economic and environmental benefits of your new design?
Economic：Manufactures can save money because they recycle raw materials in mattresses such as steel springs and cottons.
Environmental：Reduce the pollution created by plastic springs and raise the efficiency of materials such as cotton, latex and lambswool.
5. Which circular business model can you adopt instead of linear?
Waste to wealth (upcycling)：because mattresses can be reused, recycled, or upcycled.
6. If you look at the butterfly diagram, to which cycle does your product belong?
It belongs to technical cycles as it focuses on reusing.