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 MODEL OR PROTOTYPE

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