Video Reflection B

This four video bring me lot information. It uses the simple image and interesting explains the manufacture crisis in our society.

The story of stuff gives me the general idea of what crisis we facing of manufacture. It shows the relation between the environmental and social issue. A quick look of product’s life has been given in the video. It started from extraction to production to distribution to consumption to dispose. I am in shock of how we take the dioxin from the whole process and what we done to the environment. As a designer how can I make the change to this situation?  This need to take into consider in my future design.

Electronic product is common stuff in our life. It is also represent the crisis of the manufacture. The electronic product used the great number of different type of material.  The workers need to work with dioxin during production.  The safety of the employer cannot be protected. All these dioxin also bring to the user. However, the lives of these products are quickly end in the Chinese recycling shop. Every year, there has 25million tons electronic product be wasted. This huge waste is unfriendly to our environment and unsustainable. 

Compare to the electronic, the cosmetics are connect with our body directly. It has been used directly on our body everyday and more one type. I know it has some constituted is not good. However it still scared to see how it damaged our body.  It is such serious crisis to everyone but as the designer I have no idea how to change it. That’s a horrible thing that you still need to use those cosmetics on your body even you know it may bring the cancer.  The marketing give you no choose of it.

Not like the cosmetics which damaged our body, bottled water not influences our health direct. However, it is waste of the material, energy and has nothing better than the tap water. Although I never realized how serious problem the bottle water can bring to our society, I am not the one who supports the bottle water. Now, I am pride that I am not the one who likes the bottle water. The every process on the bottled water manufacture is creating the waste.  Is that’s necessary to using the resource and energy to produce the bottle for these water and using the energy to transported the bottle water for less than 10mins drink?

Making the change to the world is the thing I expect in my design.  The problem we facing is the entire thing that I can challenge. Knowing the problem, facing the problem and fix the problem.

Three take home message:

-The manufacture should be sustainability, equality, green chemistry, zero waste, closed loop, production, renewable energy, local living economic.

-The consumption habit can be changed.

-To increasing the life of the product reduce the waste of the product need to be considering into deign.