Giving packaging a new life

HOW IT'S MADE–PACKAGING

Design is a course of life and it enhances better lifestyle and convenience of life.  Those videos are amazing because they bring me to the attention of people’s daily life, what people uses and wastes every day.

Cardboard boxes

It is really brilliant to recycle the cardboard boxes into beautiful tissue boxes. This shows how we can transform waste material into the new packaging for alternative usage.

QUZ: Also, I have a question is how we recycle the tissue boxes?? should we recycle to making papers?

Packaging tubes

This video opens my mind to think about packaging. In the industry today, there are various ways of packing liquid goods. The using of packaging tubes can reduce the packaging weight and assets, and the transport cost. 

Tetrapack

Tetra pack is one of the most popular packaging in these modern days. In this video, tetra pack shows its advantages: classic physical look, easy to be transported, compare with glass bottle it has bigger volume, and it keeps liquid products last longer. However, everything has two sides. Tetra pack is hard to be recycled, if we don’t carefully recycle it, it may have bad impact to the water and clay or even animals.

Recycling

I don’t really agree with putting the litter under the ground to deal with rubbish. The non-biodegradable rubbish will stay under the ground for many years. Some rubbish might produce chemicals that damage the clay. In this video, as a design student, I learned that I should pay attention to choose the material used for my design, I have responsibility to use green material, design useful products which gives value to people from generation to generation, to eradicate the need for joining underground recycling party.

Aluminium cans

In my personal opinion, aluminium cans play a very important role in our food storage. However, aluminium is harmful if it gets into our body. Thus in my future design, I will minimise or if possible avoid to use it for kitchen products.

Glass bottles

It is interesting to know what the glass bottles are made of. Glass bottles need to be recycled very carefully because each we recycle can light up a 100wz light bulb for 4 hours.

Before, I thought industry design is just to design goods but watching those videos I see that not only the public but the designers too have the responsibility to keep the environment.

Plastic bottles and jars

I really like this part which shows how they test the plastic bottles and jars.

The elasticity of plastic highlights how I should consider more precisely about the shape of the product when I design.