Examples
These samples show how other designers and manufacturers have applied Ecodesign strategies to improve the sustainability scores of their designs. The examples are ordered by industry. Each item is illustrated with images, short descriptions and applied design strategies, giving you a brief insight in the design considerations of the designer and manufacturer. Hopefully, these examples bring inspiration to many others.
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Apparel and footwear
Nike Considered
The Nike Considered mission is simple: We're dedicated to product design that delivers more from less. That offers unparalleled performance while using less energy to make. Features innovative cushioning systems, yet produces less waste. Looks great, yet requires fewer chemicals in production. Nike Considered is an entirely new perspective - where innovation meets conservation. more »
Nike Reuse-a-shoe
Reuse-A-Shoe is a key component of Nike's long-term commitment to waste elimination by helping to close the loop on the life cycle of literally millions of pairs of old, worn-out or otherwise unusable athletic shoe material. Reuse-A-Shoe also plays an important role in Nike's long-term commitment to help increase the physical activity of young people to improve their lives by reusing this old athletic shoe material in new places for kids to play and be active. more »
Automotive
GM Skateboard
In 2005 GM introduced the Sequel, a drivable concept vehicle based on their revolutionary skateboard chassis. The chassis is formed by lightweight aluminium structure with integrated drive-by-wire controls, fuel cell stack, lithium-ion batteries and electric wheel hub motors. Fuel cell propulsion eliminates foot pedals, the instrument panel, and the steering column. The driver can sit anywhere in the vehicle. The skateboard can be the basis of many types of vehicles like the Sequel. By building Sequel, GM is learning how to make fuel cell vehicles affordable and more powerful. This is good for car buyers and can be good for our global society. GM says that vehicles like Sequel, which use no gasoline and emit only water vapour, can help eliminate auto emissions and help the world move to renewable and stable energy. more »
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Furniture, decoration and accessoires
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Healthcare
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Office Furniture
Herman Miler Aeron
Combining distinctive looks with pioneering ergonomics, Aeron performs like no other chair. It adopts naturally and adjusts precisely to fit people of all sizes and postures doing all kinds of activities, all day long. The seat and back frames are made from 100% post-consumer plastics. The die-cast aluminium base and armrests are made from recycled metal. more »
Packaging
BagGlobe: Bag recycling for and by consumers
The BagGlobe is intended for use by environmentally-aware but slightly forgetful supermarket customers who get to the checkout and only then realise that they have left their shopping bags at home. more »
Personal care
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Transportation
City Car - Stackable Car Concept For Public Transport
The City Car is a stackable electric two-passenger city vehicle. The one-way sharable user model is designed to be used in dense urban areas. Vehicle Stacks will be placed throughout the city to create an urban transportation network that takes advantage of existing infrastructure such as subway and bus lines. more »
RoboScooter - Clean, Green Mobility For Todays Crowded Cities
The RoboScooter is a lightweight, folding, electric motor scooter. It is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive mobility in urban areas while radically reducing the negative effects of extensive vehicle use - road congestion, excessive consumption of space for parking, traffic noise, air pollution, carbon emissions that exacerbate global warming, and energy use. It is clean, green, silent, and compact. more »
OV-fiets: a fast and easy rental bike
OV-fiets is a bike rental service that is part of the Dutch public transport ('OV-fiets' means 'public transport bicycle'). The OV-fiets is an ideal means to cover the distance between the railway station and the office. more »
Greenwheels Carsharing
Jan Borghuis, one of the two Greenwheels founders, first came across the idea of sharing a car when he and his partner read about Berlin-based StattAuto Car Sharing. They liked the concept but were convinced that it could be improved upon with the help of modern ICT applications such as on-board computers, chip cards and mobile telephony. more »
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News
03-02-2009 19:50 SodaSeal resealable drink
Ukrainian inventor Johan De Broyer has conceived the idea for a re-sealable aluminum soda can read more
03-02-2009 19:39 G1: The World's First Transparent Pool Table
22-01-2009 22:39 ABIC Innovative Plastics' Resins Optimize Water Valves with Design Freedom, High Performance and Long Life
22-01-2009 20:53 Discarded PET Bottles are Reborn as SABIC Innovative Plastics' Valox iQ* Resin, Achieving Silver Cradle to CradleSM Certification
Column
Richard Vennix MSc
co-founder of Matbase and innovation consultant
Yes, you've found us!
08-12-2009 08:33
Last november was a memorable month for us at Matbase, we passed the milestone of 1000 visitors per day. So I guess we were not that far of when we thought it would be a good idea to make the material database we used as students during our stay at the Delft University of Technology accessable to other people. Apparently, people appreciate the easy way they can lookup the material properties and how we present the data.
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