Trash to Treasure: Turning waste into sustainable and enjoyable applications for Dierenpark Emmen Next

Trash to Treasure: Turning waste into sustainable and enjoyable applications for Dierenpark Emmen Next

Dölle, E.A.

Brezet, J.C. (mentor)
Fokkema, J.T. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

Design Engineering

Design for Sustainability

2010-08-26

The current zoo of Emmen will move to a new location in 2015, so plans are being made to realize a new park that will be highly sustainable. In this graduation project a vision was created on how the 'material flows' in the park can become as sustainable as possible. This vision was used to generate product ideas for the new park. Finally three ideas have been worked out into prototypes; 'Dierbaar furniture', a lively entry ticket and the 'Trash to Treasure Tree'. Basis material for all three ideas is fibre from hippo dung. The 'Dierbaar' furniture was evaluated using the Eco-cost / Value Ratio and the product turned out to have negative eco-cost, which makes it a very sustainable product.

sustainability
hippo dung
Dierenpark Emmen

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Campus only

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2010 Dölle, E.A.