We dread to have our favorite kettles, toasters, mixers, or irons broken. Not only is it hard to repair them, having to let go of something that we liked and was working perfectly fine is also not an easy thing. What comes on top of that is the extra burden…

Most of the products we use every day are influenced by the ideas and mindset that originated from the industrial era (when resources seemed infinite, and sustainability was a mere niche). Designing to produce at the lowest cost (i.e. for products differentiating on cost) or the optimum cost (i.e. for…

Dinner sets, tea sets, cutlery, plates, and dishes — You may have received them as a gift or purchased them at your fancy, yet one common thing is that they needed to match, or in other words, be a complete set. “Match” is a tricky word we usually tend to…

Choosing Product Alternatives — Grocery Bags — Evaluating alternative products is key and unavoidable when we want to replace ones with better environmental performance. Usually, the process entails having to consider more than one aspect — product performance may be key but there are several other. …

Today’s consumers are increasingly demanding sustainably produced products — and they’re willing to pay more for such products. Members of Generation Z, in particular, choose brands that are both people- and planet-friendly. …

Packaging has had an evolutionary change of roles over the industrial era. From simply carrying, containing, or covering a product, it is now a marketing tool that is directly used for communicating the product’s identity. — Packaging has had an evolutionary change of roles over the industrial era. From simply carrying, containing, or covering a product, it is now a marketing tool that is directly used for communicating the product’s identity.

We are often faced with alternatives or choices, prompting us to make decisions. How do we evaluate all these alternatives? — Making a decision implies that there are choices to be considered, and in such a case we want not only to identify as many of these alternatives as possible but to choose the one that best fits with our goals and objectives (Harris,1980). Circular economy — Leading to complex policy decisions

Transitioning towards a circular economy, one industry at a time — Among a lot of the alternatives that we need to choose in order to move towards a circular, regenerative economy, the most impactful differences come from the redesign of upstream processes. Many of these involve a product or material redesign or larger industrial transformation. There are some initiatives, which can…

Packaging — is a temporary vehicle to provide us the product that we want, safely and securely containing it at times. Other times, it is just an extra dressing that does not deliver value to the consumer, the supply chain that transfers it, and the environment. — How do we figure out what the alternatives are? Most importantly, for businesses, how do we decouple, or isolate value brought about with packaging, so that we realise what alternatives to recouple it with, to deliver the same value.