notes of video (Marry Warren)

Mary Warren from Robert Horne's sustainable board/paper suppliers in Northampton

Revive – recycled paper brand

When deigning eco products, we much understand eco issues

5 million paper based waste going to landfill

8.5 k per house

wood free paper – made in a particular way

cellulose fiber got from trees to make paper

less energy and water is need to recycle paper as the cellulose fibers has already been extracted from the tree

most of the UK paper comes from outside, due to a lack of paper mills in the UK

scandinavia where we get out paper

recycled paper mainly comes from Europe -  eg France, German, Italy

bio mass

paper mill takes in water normally from a river, the water is utilise and put back into the river, mostly likely cleaner than it came out.

Paper is recycled into a pulp and then can again be made again into paper

Designers are

- Responsible for educating

- How will it be disposed of – what happens at the end of there life

- Functional

- Meets clients requirements

- Meets budgets

- Corporate and social reasonability

- Work within deffors green code  - only make claims that you can prove – where it comes from, eg where the raw materials come from, amount of energy it takes to make

- Waste

- Using the most out of the resources – eg instead of printing A4 can it be smaller

- Don’t limit you thought, test the boundaries

England committed to reducing their carbon footprint by 34% by 2020, if not reputation will suffer. 

What do inviters have in common?

They have all failed – challenge the norm

Ethical consumer – concerned about the environment 

50% renewable energy is used in England for recycling paper 

FSC recycled label means it is made from 100% recycled materials