PLASTIC CONSUMER PRODUCTS FOR AUTOMOBILES“Turning One Man’s Trash Into Our Treasure!”

THE PROBLEM

About 1 million plastic bags are used each minute A single plastic bag can take 1,000 years to degrade More than 3.5 million tons of plastic bags were discarded in 2008 The U.S. alone goes through an estimated 100 billion single-use

bags Every square mile of ocean has ~46,000 pieces of plastic in it Of all discarded plastic storage items, 90% are plastic bags

BRAINSTORMING, RESEARCH AND IDEA GENERATION

IDENTIFY CRITERIA AND SPECIFY CONSTRAINTS

Criteria Create a consumer product for the

automobile industry Constraints

No melting, shredding, burned. No trash art Stay as intact as possible

SOLUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES

Solution Dash board organizer with double sided tape

Alternatives Seat covers, steering wheel covers, floor

mates

IMPLEMENT THE PROPOSED SOLUTIONS

Took it to a factory to heat seal the sections of the plastic bag. A section for a phone and sections for pen/pencils

MAKE A M

ODEL OR P

ROTOTY

PE

EVALUATE THE SOLUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

Evaluation Keeps things organized for the driver

Consequences Doesn’t take to many plastic bags out of

land fills

REFINE THE DESIGN

Instead of double sided tape replace it for Velcro/Dual-sided, reusable sticky tabs

CREATE THE FINAL DESIGN

COMMUNICATE THE PROCESSES AND THE RESULTS

For two Wednesdays we met up in the second floor lounge of Lloyd Cassidy and went through the design processes. This is where we cam up for the idea of an organizer. And (insert name here) took it to his work and heat sealed the final product