Five Principles of Waste Product Redesign under the Upcycling Concept

DOI

10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.227How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Upcycling; Redesign principle; Green design; Industrial design; Product design

Abstract

It explores and constructs the principles of waste product redesign which are based on the concept of upcycling. It clarifies the basic concept of upcycling, briefly describes its current development, deeply discusses its value and significance, combines with the idea of upcycling which behinds regeneration design principle from the concept of “4R” of green design, and takes real-life case as example to analyze the prin-ciples of waste product redesign. It puts forward five principles of waste product redesign: value enhance-ment, make the most use of waste, durable and environmental protection, cost control and populace's aesthet-ic.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiang Xu
AU  - Ping Gu
PY  - 2015/09
DA  - 2015/09
TI  - Five Principles of Waste Product Redesign under the Upcycling Concept
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Forum on Energy, Environment Science and Materials
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1238
EP  - 1243
SN  - 2352-5401
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DO  - 10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.227
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