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Visualizing Sustainability: Changing the picture with plastics.
What happens if you take a familiar product, apply fundamental concepts of sustainable development and re-design it using plastics? The answer is a whole new picture of sustainability. That’s what BMS Director of Applications Engineering Mark Matsco does in a visionary case study that compares the sustainability features of today’s standard flat screen TV with those of a hypothetical BMS ECO-TV. Moving briskly through the typical product development cycle, Mark uses a series of animations and images to reveal the opportunities thermoplastics provide for sustainable design and engineering of this ubiquitous product. These include overcoming barriers to sustainability with forward-looking design strategies that extend product life, facilitate recycling, minimize waste and consume less energy. Mark offers ideas for responsible design that anticipate a product’s future use. He presents a material-at-a-glance guide for selecting engineering thermoplastics that can meet requirements for performance, life span, functionality and aesthetics. Mark touches, as well, on advanced testing and analysis tools BMS uses to help designers and engineers optimize performance and ensure the manufacturing feasibility of sustainable products that use plastics.
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