Waste=Food
What was important for me to hear from the film
“Waste=Food” is that rapid growing companies cause the most waste. The problem
we face as Industrial Designers is how to make something sustainable and able
to last a very long time. If it’s not sustainable there must be another
solution. The other solution to the product not being sustainable is to design
the object to be biodegradable. Waste is stupid, however waste can become food.
By designing product to be biodegradable it can be used as foundation for growing
food.
By
using materials that are made from nature and not polluting those materials
that we use plays great part in being biodegradable. Using cotton for many
products is a perfect example. Cotton is grown from plants and is a
biodegradable fiber that can be used. Non-toxic dye is a harder material to
make biodegradable. There are only 16 dyes that are biodegradable. Having only
16 dyes that are biodegradable really limits the designer. However, limitations
are good for creativity and not a setback.
Industrial Designers have to be more intelligent when
making product design. Products have to be imagined differently. Everything
that is biology should be able to go back into biology. If the object is designed and built from
materials from ecosystem it should be biodegradable. The product should help
the environment not harm it. However, if does not harm the environment or help
the environment is it still good design? That question must be answered by the
Industrial Designer
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