Social impact of products Lesson objective – to be able to take into consideration the ethical issues relating to the design and manufacture of products

Questions It is only recently that the industrial world has begun to understand the fragile relationship between humankind and the environment. What does the term product lifecycle mean? Lesson objective – to be able to take into consideration the ethical issues relating to the design and manufacture of products

Product lifecycle is sometimes used to describe how long a product will last before it wears out. It may also be used to explain the time taken for a product to become obsolete. What does obsolete mean? Have you ever heard the term the product has ‘built in obsolescence’? Lesson objective – to be able to take into consideration the ethical issues relating to the design and manufacture of products

Task 1 Look at the flow diagram that shows a closed loop manufacturing system on page 50 – now draw this make sure all the arrows are correct. Lesson objective – to be able to take into consideration the ethical issues relating to the design and manufacture of products

Task 2 Now using the maps of the world, glue them down to the A3 sheets and analyse where the ingredients on the pizza boxes come from. Draw a line to each of the countries from the UK and write up the notes at the bottom of page 50 stating where raw ingredients come from. Look at the example. Lesson objective – to be able to take into consideration the ethical issues relating to the design and manufacture of products

Where have the ingredients come from, what are the implications? Pepperoni pizza Ham and pineapple pizza

Lesson objective – to be able to take into consideration the ethical issues relating to the design and manufacture of products The pineapple is native to Central and South America, where symbolic carvings of its form were found in pre-Incan ruins. It is almost 500 years since Christopher Columbus “discovered” the pineapple, which he received in exchange for trinkets from Indians on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. The two leading states in fresh market tomato production (2004) in acres are Florida (42,000) and California (37,000), and in production at 1,000 cwt. of fruit in Florida (15,120) and California (10,730). The leading state for processing tomato (2004) production is California at 281,000 acres with Indiana (256,450 acres) and Ohio (149,630 acres) being the next two leading states. The tons of processing tomato produced in California is 11,672,000, and in Indiana 8,300 and Ohio 6,200.

Lesson objective – to be able to take into consideration the ethical issues relating to the design and manufacture of products Today Spain is the world's leading producer and consumer of ham. Some 38.5 million hams and shoulders are processed each year, and every Spaniard eats nearly 5 kg of ham a year - twice as much as in Italy, second among the consuming countries.

Lesson objective – to be able to take into consideration the ethical issues relating to the design and manufacture of products Top Ten Wheat Producers Below are the leading wheat producers for the season. The top 10 producers accounted for over two-thirds of global wheat harvests. China … 96.2 million tonnes (15.4% of global wheat production) India … 72 million (11.5%) United States … 57.1 million (9.1%) Russia … 45.5 million (7.3%) France … 36.9 million (5.9%) Canada … 25.5 million (4.1%) Australia … 24.1 million (3.8%) Germany … 23.6 million (3.8%) Pakistan … 21.6 million (3.4%) Turkey … 21 million (3.4%) Read more at Suite101: Top Ten Wheat Countries: Prices for Grain Exports & Imports Surge as 2007 Crop Outlook Dims 1.com/article.cfm/top_ten_whea t_countries#ixzz0h2q1xxI7Top Ten Wheat Countries: Prices for Grain Exports & Imports Surge as 2007 Crop Outlook Dims 1.com/article.cfm/top_ten_whea t_countries#ixzz0h2q1xxI7 In chillies the major producing countries are India, China, Peru, Bangladesh, Hungary and few others. Production of major countries are growing at CAGR 5.2 percent. World trade in chillies is put at 400,000 metric tonnes. Indian share in global production range from 50 to 60 percent, China and Peru are growing fast and Hungary shows a de-growth. Peru and China are dominating world paprika trade. However India is the only one source for hot chillies.

Lesson objective – to be able to take into consideration the ethical issues relating to the design and manufacture of products Israel is known as Europe’s winter garden, thanks to its favorable climate, which allows the production regions to grow peppers and other key vegetables at a time of year when crops in northern and central Europe are almost frozen. However, despite the bonus of mild daytime temperatures and intense light, even on the shortest days of winter, water resources are scarce in a country where turning desert into fertile land is little short of miraculous.Europe’s winter garden

What is a Carbon footprint Task 3 – now write a small report on a specific product in detail from the material area you have studied Show how you understand the product’s life cycle, from raw material to disposal, what has an effect on the environment?