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Alexis Fahrenholz

Professor Debra Jizi

UWRT 1104

13 November 2017

Annotated Bibliography

"Axion, Re-Worked Develop aromatic Furniture from Waste Plastic and Coffee." Additives for

Polymers. 2010.6 (2010): 4. Print.

Axion, Re-worked develop aromatic furniture from waste plastic and coffee is about

exactly what the title says, turning recycled materials, including coffee, into furniture. The article

is very brief but gives an understanding of the outcome of the product. They describe why they

chose to use the coffee grounds and the effects it has on the furniture. This product comes from a

company in the UK and they intend to extend further into the recycled furniture industry.

The biggest thing that I have learned from this source was that coffee grinds can be very

versatile. Who knew that you could use coffee grinds for more than just making coffee. This

article is relevant to my project because it is almost exactly what my project is on. The only

difference with this article is that they used organic materials which I would have never thought

of. When you think about it though, old, or already used organic materials being used for

something else is still recycling. So in this case I have definitely learned that you need to asses

every piece of material before discarding it and labeling it as unusable again.

This source has much credibility in it even with being so brief. The website itself is

credible and even the book it comes from. The author of this article is not recognized but there

are two credible names mentioned. Adam Fairweather, who is the director and came up with the
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main idea of using coffee, and Steve Bell, who is the senior product development supervisor at

Axion Polymers. Axion is actually a company that is dedicated to creating things out of waste

so that nothing goes to waste. Other materials that Axion has been collecting to reuse have

been vinyl flooring, PVC, carpet, and even select medical devices that have all been thrown out.

Designing with Recycled Materials. New York, N.Y: Films Media Group, 2011. Internet

resource.

Designing with Recycled Materials is a twenty-seven minute educational video on the

process of recycling the materials and turning them into a product. The main material that they

recycle in this video is playstation casings and refrigerators. They go through the brief

explanation of all the companies it takes to put one product together and all the moving parts to

make one product. When creating the chair, they were able to make it out of all separate parts so

if something breaks, they only have to replace the one part instead of the whole thing. They go in

depth about figuring out all the different plastics and metals are in the recycled materials and

how they sort through them. Testing the plastics after they have been melted together for strength

and adding certain harmless chemicals to the materials are also part of the process.

From watching Designing with Recycled Materials, I have learned many things. This

video has shown and explained to me the very long, but rewarding process of turning old trash

into something brand new and useful. It taught me about the various testing and sorting of the

different materials needed to be done in order to create a product. The one cool thing that I

definitely learned was that Europe made a law called The Waste Electrical and Electronic

Directive (WEEE), which was to make sure that any electronic thrown away needs to be

recycled as much as it can. So almost no part is wasted or left in a landfill pretty much. And the
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best part is since everything is cheaper and all the waste is reduced due to recycling almost

everything, like they say, the carbon footprint is much lower. The video explained that when it

comes to using recycled materials, you need to be open to a new way of thinking and designing

because its not like using brand new materials. This is related to my inquiry project because it

has shown and provided me with information on how to create furniture and such out of recycled

materials. Which is exactly what my inquiry project is about and exactly what this video is about.

Credibility for this source is provided throughout the video. They mention companies,

laws, requirements, and people. Companies/brands in the video are Axion, Sprout, Pli, Indesit,

and Overtons are creating different products out of these recycled materials. One of the laws

that was mentioned is RoHS= Restriction Of Hazardous Substances. Some of the requirements

mentioned for using recycled materials are that they have to be shredded and separated by

materials. Then they have to go on and be further tested for what they can withstand in different

conditions. People that are mentioned in the video are Alex Whitney, Guy Robinson, Keith

Freegard, and Bob Shaw. And all of these are real and the products they are making and

recycling the materials from are real. The process they have to go through and the requirements

they have to meet are what any other new products have to go through. They even suggest a

designing video for this type of thing that I will have to check out.

Dangelico, Rosa M, Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo, and Devashish Pujari. "Developing Sustainable

New Products in the Textile and Upholstered Furniture Industries: Role of External

Integrative Capabilities." Journal of Product Innovation Management. 30.4 (2013):

642-658. Print.
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Developing Sustainable New Products in the Textile and Upholstered Furniture

Industries: Role of External Integrative Capabilities is an article about exactly what the title

says. Its main focus is on companies trying to go green and the struggles and transformations

needed for this to happen. Going through the processes it takes and all the challenges faced to

make more earth friendly products. Development, capabilities, know-hows, benefits, methods,

data, research, and even visuals are provided and gone over throughout this article.

This article has showed and taught me a little about the technical and business side of

things when it comes to this industry. Some of it was a little hard because they use the technical

terms but it is introducing me to the serious side of this type of business. It doesnt seem directly

related to my inquiry project but the fact is that if you want to create things, in this world you

have to know all the sides of the business, not just the easy stuff.

The Journal of Product Innovation Management is where this article came from. This is

a peer-reviewed journal that explores and provides information on areas involving product

innovation. The authors of this article, Rosa Maria Dangelico,Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo, and

Devashish Pujari, are researchers who want to see a change in the world of sustainability. They

are very credible sources from foreign universities outside of the U.S.

Gaggino, Rosana. "Water-resistant Panels Made from Recycled Plastics and Resin."

Construction and Building Materials. 35 (2012): 468-482. Print. Ch. 3-4.

"Water-resistant Panels Made from Recycled Plastics and Resin" is about solving the

problems with building materials to help build houses and to help clean up the environment. The

materials that are used to make these panels include recycled plastic material from food,

perfumery or cleaning packaging, and then constituent materials are LDPE (low density
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polyethylene), BOPP (biaxially oriented polypropylene) and PVC (polyvinyl chloride). It goes

on then explaining how these materials are grinded together, sprayed with resin, put into a mold,

compressed together, and then finally the finished panel is ready. After the panels have been

made, they are then cut into different sizes to then be tested for the durability so that they can be

used out in the real world.

This source has provided me with another way to create supplies to then create furniture

and even walls if needed. Which is exactly what my inquiry project is all about. This article

explained the whole process of how it took the unwanted materials and made a panel out of

them. Simple and fantastic. Exactly the kind of thing my inquiry project is needing and looking

for. What this article has taught me and what I am starting to see recurring in many of the

recycled creation articles is that almost any material can be crushed up and mended together to

create something solid.

The easiest way to explain the credibility of this source is that they show evidence right

there in the article. There are many many pictures in this article showing you step by step some

of the processes that go into the making of the panels. And not only are there pictures but they

also provide many charts with numerous amounts of data. The author of this article is Rosana

Gaggino, who is an architect and is referred to as a Master in Architectural Design. She was

also the woman who came up with this idea and a brick made out of recycled materials too.

Citation: Iritani, D.R, D.A.L Silva, Y.M.B Saavedra, P.F.F Grael, and A.R Ometto. "Sustainable

Strategies Analysis Through Life Cycle Assessment: a Case Study in a Furniture

Industry."

Journal of Cleaner Production. 96 (2015): 308-318. Print. Ch. 1.

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"Sustainable Strategies Analysis Through Life Cycle Assessment: a Case Study in a

Furniture Industry." is about trying to analyze the lifecycle of products and sustainable strategies

to build things out of medium density particleboard. A Lot of this article focuses on Brazil and

how much of their forests were planted to go into production of the different types of constructed

wood. This article even touches on the topic of global warming and the negative effects humans

are putting on the environment. It highlights the damaging effects we have on this planet.

Like I said in one of the other sources, this article is showing me a little more of the

business part of things. Maybe not as much as the other source but it comes pretty close. The

difference with this article to that one is this one gives you a little more of an understanding

viewpoint. It wants you to see all of the negative effects we have on the earth and how we can fix

it by recycling. It doesnt distract or scare you with necessarily all the technical terms. This

article has shown me how we actually use and somewhat manipulate our forests for the outcome

of products that will eventually be thrown away down the road in time. With my inquiry project,

I want you to see that but without shoving it in your face. I want you to see that building

something out of recycled materials does not always have an ugly looking end result and will

help the earth in the long run.

This article also has many data charts and diagrams on display throughout the text. There

are five different authors for this article who are all at the So Carlos School of Engineering.

Their names are D.R. Iritani, D.A.L. Silva, Y.M.B.Saavedra, P.F.F. Grael, and A.R. Ometto. All

are in the Department of Production Engineering except Y.M.B.Saavedra, who is in the

Environmental Engineering Sciences. They each have authored many more documents that

they are recognized for and expresses the credibility of this article.