Green design isn't that difficult

Green design, also known as eco-design, environmental design, the basic idea is incorporated the environmental factors in the design phase, and prevent pollution of the environmental performance in product design, the environmental factors will be the product design objectives and starting point, the green design strives to make products on the environment effects are minimized. As for IT industrial design, green design is not only to reduce material and energy consumption, reduce the emissions of shouting substances, but also includes the products and parts easily separation for collection and recycling or reuse.

The main content of green design include: material selection and management, product design for dis-assembly and recycle ability of the products. Talk from the perspective of industrial design, design items need to meet the 4R principle reduction (Reduction), reuse (Reuse), recycling (Recycling,), regeneration (Regeneration). In order to effectively use the earth's resources and energy, at the beginning of the green design, designers need to look at the whole process of new product life cycle, consider the new product in the entire process of production and the natural environment and human impact on the whole process. This requires designers control materials selection that contain harmful ingredients and harmless ingredients can not be mixed together in the design stage and use special design process, so that it is possible to recycle the service life product, reasonable recovery value and simple recycling methods; the structure design of the product should be easy to disassemble, easy maintenance and recycling.

In this case, the majority of designers will take into account about the modular design, modules divided according to the product's features through the selection and combination of modules can constitute different products, both to meet the needs of different users, but also to facilitate the maintenance and demolition recycling;followed by a recyclable design, the design should take full account of the possibility of product parts recycling and materials, including the recovery of the value and processing methods, in order to achieve full and effective use of parts and material resources and energy to protect the environment. Another concern is the green packaging design with an emphasis to try to reduce unnecessary consumption of materials, attention to the use of recycled materials.

At present, green design has become one of the most serious problems facing the design community, especially in the IT industry design need to strengthen the green design. In fact, green design is not so complicated as we thought, seemingly insignificant improvements in many details, it is possible to significantly conserve resources. Such as saving as much as possible in the design of new products related materials to promote compact, intensive product and packaging design, and even take on the bulk purchase unpacked, re-use of packaging design; selection can be recycled or easily renewable products and packaging materials, to avoid the use of materials or the materials difficult to recycle reproduction of harm to the environment largely; to consider the issue of energy-saving materials in the production process technology to save and consumers to design products can be reused; to stick with the health and safety and the environment good integration, and long life cycle design.