- Clean technologies often have some financial benefit to the consumer in the long term
- The initial cost implications can be severe
- Cleaner technologies will usually need some form of investment in designing and manufacturing
- More efficient and less polluting machines are needed
Designing without jeopardising the potential for people in the future to meet their needs:
- Easy to dismantle for repair or reuse and so extending the product life
- Easy to seperate different materials for recycling
- Easy to remove components that must be treated separately for repair
- Use as few different materials as possible
- Mark the materials/polymers in order to sort them correctly
- Avoid surface treatments in order to keep the materials 'clean'
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