Steward
Circular Design
Designing products and materials so they can be reused, repaired or recycled after first use.
What is Circular Design?
Designing products and materials so they can be reused, repaired or recycled after first use.
What you learn
Design products so their parts can have a next life.
When it helps
a product has no useful path after its first owner.
Use it at work
- List the product’s parts and materials.
- For each, name its next life: reuse, repair, refurbish or recycle.
- Make parts easy to separate and replace.
- Set up the service that makes the next life happen.
Your output
Pick one product or part you design. Ask who could repair, reuse or recycle it, and what in the design stops them.
Watch for
Designs that make repair, reuse or recycling impossible.
Related practices
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