Design for recycle

Recyclable design is a part of sustainable design, it should consider some strategies about recycling including materials, the value, methods in the early stages of product design to maximize use of energy and minimize the environmental pollution.

This kind of design includes following parts.

1.   Recyclable materials and signs

2.   Recyclable technology and methods

3.   economic assessment

4.   recyclable design

There is a case of recyclable design. Using plastic bottles to build a school can be one of amazing case. This school is located in San Pablo in Philippine and designed by Lllac Diaz. The whole building is made up of plastic bottles whose capacity is 1.5 liter or 2 liter. In order to build this building, volunteers have spent almost one month to collect these bottles. This building can meet the demand of lighting, also the structure is better than that of cement building, it requires lower costs as well, although it doesn't  look good. By the way, when I search for some interesting design, I saw coat racks made by plastic bottles. Most coat racks are made by wood or plastics, so using plastic bottles can reduce emission of greenhouse gases and wastes. In this blog, I just want to focus on the case of school because I have never known that plastic bottles can build whole building. Pictures below shows the amazing building.