The product that we disassemble is kettle. This product took us approximately 2 hours to separate it into parts. The hardest thing to do that we found is to take the screws out, many tools are needed.
In this exercise, we identified the product materials and discussed the process of how the parts been made. The main material of this kettle is polypropylene. The design of this product is simple,but there is challenge of hard to take out the heating component. Only this part it has 8 screws. After the disassembly we find out all the material of this product ended up have to go to landfill, nothing can be really recycle that is really waste.
The report from the greenfly shows that the part that has most environment impact is the heating system. (It took long time to separate it.) This result also shows that the design company didn't really consider about the environmental issue.
To redesign this product we can do better so don't have to waste that much. we consider to reduce the require of using fastener, there for most of the part can be use technique of self lock, in this way manufacture can reduce the cost of product and also can easy to get the product recycle which is more friendly for the environment.
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