Since 2013, the project has refurbished and exchanged almost 300 bikes, while servicing and repairing more than 300 more. Phil Barton, Chief Executive of Keep Britain Tidy, said: “The success of the Respoke project and the continuing support of its partners and local residents are testament to the work and commitment of the team. Stronger links have been formed with schools, colleges and private and public sector organisations to help support cycle promotion initiatives. Well done to all those involved.”

The Waste less Live more Award recognises work that is engaging people in reducing their waste while, at the same time, improving their happiness and wellbeing, a category we were delighted to sponsor.

Gascoigne Cycle Exchange was one of 11 winners whose achievements were recognised at the ceremony, in the presence of Environment Minister Dan Rogerson MP (who also recently visited us at Fab Lab). The awards celebrated the exceptional contributions that Keep Britain Tidy’s partners and supporters have made to the local and global environment.

Environment Minister Dan Rogerson said: “The kind of innovation and creativity shown by the nominees and winners of these awards plays a huge role in inspiring this action and I congratulate them on their efforts to keep our neighbourhoods clean and tidy. I hope their success inspires more initiatives across the country to help manage waste and keep England litter-free.”

The runner-up in the Waste less Live more Award category was Foodsave, London:

By establishing strong links between food businesses and their local communities, this project is helping food get to those who really need it across London, instead of going to landfill.

Competition Scope

The aim of this competition is to develop processes for dealing with continuously produced waste streams to maximise the value of recovered resources. Proposals should describe how they seek to maximise the value of outputs and, for this reason, those solely seeking to recover energy from waste are out of scope. Projects focused on product-return approaches, such as remanufacture, refurbishment and leasing, are also out of scope.

Potential areas include (but are not limited to):

·      improved collection schemes

·      techniques for identification of materials and parts

·      identification and processing of waste materials at speed

·      real-time monitoring of contaminants

·      recovery of valuable resources from wastewater or factory effluent

Click here to download the competition brief.

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The RE-Fab House Project – Enabling Re-usable construction from RE-Fab House Project on Vimeo.

Servicing Greener Cities from Rob Maslin on Vimeo.

“As part of a project jointly funded by the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, Seymourpowell have a made an educational video highlighting the possibilities, as well as the benefits, of paint recycling, and also identified a completely new technology to help scale and speed up the paint recycling process for greater business viability.

Part of the project saw Seymourpowell and AkzoNobel consult with two existing paint-recycling enterprises – Newlife Paints based in Ford, West Sussex (currently sold in 170 B&Q stores around the UK), and Castle RePaint Scotland, a social enterprise based in Fife. Both provided valuable insight into the current problems to paint recycling. Three main challenges presented themselves. Firstly is in collecting used paint – the average UK household has 17 half empty or unused tins of paint in storage, so there is a significant task in getting these back. A second challenge is in selling recycled paint; as there remain issue of brand and customer perception of quality – in recycled vs new paint

The third clear challenge, the initial focus for Seymourpowell’s design work, is around reprocessing ‘used’ paint – removing paint from old tins, remixing and so on. Significant progress needs to be made in reprocessing used paint to make it commercially viable. As part of the brief on this project, Seymourpowell identified a completely new technology which halves the decant time of old paint so greatly improving the recycling process.

Chris Sherwin, head of sustainability at Seymourpowell commented, “Paint recycling is a real area of opportunity, economically and environmentally, yet faces many design challenges to become viable. Our initial area of work has been to help improve the actual recycling process itself. By halving the time it takes to remove the old paint from used tins, we believe we can dramatically scale-up and speed-up of the process, making it far more viable for businesses facing rising costs on raw materials”.

Sherwin added, “Many people believe that sustainable innovation is about as interesting as watching paint dry, but we’ve found this one of the most exciting innovation challenges Seymourpowell has faced in recent years. We’ve loved the opportunity to work on such a fledging process, and to support such a worthy cause. We are excited to continue working with AkzoNobel, and others, to further develop our promising paint recycling technology. All this can be better for business, consumers and the planet.”

David Cornish, Global Sustainability Manager – Resource Efficiency at AkzoNobel added, “This collaboration really helped us think through some of the tricky challenges of paint recycling. It’s an exciting area for us, but needs improving to become commercially attractive. Seymourpowell’s animation will certainly help us communicate the opportunities internally in order to bring the weight of our resources behind this research. We look forward to continue working together to further investigate this new paint recycling technology and how we and others might make use of it.”

If you have a closed loop idea that could reduce waste streams, enter the TSB’s new competition: Supply Chain Innovation towards a Circular Economy.

“We are looking to support projects that are high-impact, both in terms of the market opportunity that they address and the environmental benefits that they offer. For example, they could involve the first application of a design approach to an existing category of product, where it could be rapidly expanded upon, or the demonstration of a new business model within an organisation to encourage behavioural change in consumers.”

This competition is open to all UK companies. Projects must be collaborative, and they must be led by a business which offers access to the market for the product or service involved, ie a brand owner or industrial end-user. We are primarily seeking to fund industrial research, with a business partner attracting 50% public funding for their project costs (60% for SMEs). The maximum project value for this competition is £300k.

The competition opens on 29 July 2013, and the deadline for applications is at noon on 11 September 2013.

For more information, visit the Technology Strategy Board competition page.

Axion Recycling Ltd.
Outdoor media banners – Design for recycling
Outdoor media waste from predominantly plastic advertising banners produces an estimated 1.1 million square metres of material each year. This waste stream is not currently reused and is difficult to recycle due to the design, construction and mix of materials used to produce the banners. Axion is proposing a collaboration with members of the outdoor media supply chain including; the Outdoor Media Centre, advertising/media companies and designers and manufacturers of advertising banners in order to improve upon current banner designs. The primary objective is to produce a fully and easily recyclable banner, with a secondary objective to explore opportunities for novel printing techniques to overprint plastic sheeting for reuse. Re-designing the advertising banners will greatly assist future reuse and recycling efforts and help to support the establishment of an industry wide collection and recycling scheme.

Bond Retail Services Limited
Feasibility Studies to implement the Circular Economy model in large retail food cabinets.
The retail food sector is a large consumer of environmental resources. This project is focused on large fridges, freezers and cold cabinets deployed in the major UK supermarkets and food stores. Research shows that the life cycle of retail refrigeration display equipment is short (3-9 years) and minimal equipment recycling takes. Of the 800,000 food display cabinets deployed in over 9000 supermarkets in the UK, less than 13% are recycled. This project is to support a number of scientifically based feasibility studies which will investigate the complete manufacturing life cycle of these products to make clear recommendations on how to concurrently reduce the use of material and increase re-use and thus to minimise waste. In short, the aim is to implement the circular economy model with a leading UK supplier of these products.

Bottle Alley Glass
Develop a specification for a product made from waste glass bottles that can be used in place of conventional building materials. The aim is to extend the time the glass remains in active use, add value to the UK economy and achieve a reduction in carbon doxide emissions over the life cycle of the product.

Clarity Sustainability
Reducing the Environmental Impact of Branded Event Communications
Thousands of exhibitions are held each year, attracting millions of visitors but there is little focus on negative environmental impacts. We have conducted research to investigate and identify the environmental concerns and impacts from exhibition stands. Partnering with Cranfield University, an exhibition stand design using sustainable materials has been developed. It comprises of a jigsaw panel system and interlocking mechanism. This is a modular approach to stand design which we believe is innovative because it would be reusable, while meeting the demands of creative stand design that the industry requires. This funding will enable us to carry out a full lifecycle assessment of the concept. We will also build a prototype so that a feasibility study can be conducted on the materials and reusability of the stand.

Dyson Ltd
Assessing the through life impact and understanding the implementation steps to using bio-polymers for Dyson products
Dyson products are primarily made from plastic and therefore require significant investment in managing their through life impact. This feasibility study aims to evaluate the potential for using 2nd generation bio-based polymers as an environmentally beneficial alternative to conventional polymers. Evidence suggests that these new materials could lead to significant through life benefits if a closed loop recycling process could be established but it is still unclear where such materials may be appropriate and what the true through life benefit could be. This study looks to explore this by understanding where 2nd generation bio-based polymers can be used, what are the true through life benefits and ultimately what does the roadmap for realising this look like.

Haydale Ltd.
Nano Particle Polymer Enhancement for Recycling Sustainability (PPERS)
Using an innovative process technology, Haydale Ltd. have developed a cost effective route to both manufacture and disperse nanoparticles such as graphene and carbon nanotubes. With funding from the TSB a feasibility study will be undertaken to establish how modification to the performance of polymers can be used to enhance the properties and performance of recycled polymers, thereby enabling the circular economy to be sustained.

Kingfisher
Return to Sender
35 million paintbrushes are discarded each year in the UK, clogging landfills and wasting resources, creating an estimated 5000 tons of waste. In most cases, brushes are disposed-of due to poor cleaning by consumers, while the handles could be reused immediately. Other ‘circular’ barriers are that no closed loop collection system exists to take used brushes back, plus suitable end-of-life options for them are not clear either. This project will see Kingfisher and Seymourpowell explore the design of a system to reload brush heads so that consumers can maintain and reuse their paintbrush handles. As part of this we plan to design a returnable packaging system in which consumers can put used bristle heads into the original packaging and post it back to the retailer, who will identify and manage a circular end-of-life route for this to avoid landfill – be that reuse, or as technical or biological cycles.

Kingfisher Plc
Circular Design for an Economy Power Tool
This project will conduct a feasibility study into the re-design of power tools to retain material within the economy over several cycles of use, thus “closing the loop”. The goal is that the new designs should lead to products with a lower environmental impact, and less dependency on strategic materials. The project will deliver a series of implementable design changes which will make power tool products more suitable for repair and reuse, without introducing additional net costs. These design changes will be disseminated to the group of Kingfisher companies (B&Q, Castorama, Brico Depot, Screwfix, Koctas) and more widely disseminated to the home improvement retail sector.

Kingfisher Plc
ProjectBox
Kingfisher’s new ‘ProjectBox’ solution will enable our customers to hire, rather than buy, all the tools, consumables and support materials that they require to complete common household DIY tasks, such as shelving, flooring, plastering and tiling. Each ProjectBox will be carefully tailored to provide the exact tools that our customers require to complete a specific task. The boxes will also provide a clear set of instructions about how to use the products together with hint and tips about how to achieve the best overall result.
By diverting those customers who have only a periodic requirement for access to tools and equipment towards this new rental service, ProjectBox will enable Kingfisher to provide people with access to much higher quality tools and equipment whilst also reducing total material consumption.

Phineas Products Ltd
Feasibility of Implementing a Circular Economic Business Model for Phineas Products
Phineas Products Ltd designs, manufactures and distributes over fifty million shoe hangers per annum, most of which are used in the United Kingdom. Their current business model uses a linear system where products are predominantly manufactured in China from virgin materials and shipped the UK. This project will evaluate the economic and environmental impacts, as well as the technical feasibility of transitioning to a circular economic model, where products are manufactured in the UK from UK-sourced recycled material and designed to be reused over closed loop cycles, and recycled only when the product has reached the end of its usable lifetime. Materials analysis will be conducted to explore the mechanical properties of the new design and four potential circular business models will be compared to the current baseline system to indicate relative costs and environmental life cycle benefits.

Powervault Ltd
A New Lease of Life for Expired Electric Car Batteries
This project will investigate the potential to use expired batteries from electric cars as the energy storage batteries of a stationary electrical energy storage device.

Re-Considered Ltd
Development of an innovative, reclaimed textile fiber furniture range
This project aims to reinvigorate the textile recycling sector by adapting traditional nonwoven recycling techniques for a new, high value application – furniture manufacture. If successfully commercialised this will tackle a priority waste stream (post consumer textiles) and create a closed loop furniture range designed for extended materials use. The project team will explore new furniture designs, develop prototypes, undertake market testing and explore innovative business models which will engage the consumer in end of life textiles collection. This responds to the following 4 opportunities: 1. large supply of raw materials (0.8M tonnes of textiles sent to landfill each year from households in the UK (WRAP), 2. Increasing interest in end of life textiles applications (e.g within the Sustainable Clothing Roadmap),3. an experienced textile reprocessing sector, and 4. increasing consumer interest in sustainable and UK manufactured furniture.

Re-worked Limited
Coffee Board: Designing an energy-light closed loop system for waste coffee and plastics
Re-worked is a not-for-profit company that sets out to reduce the amount of post-consumer coffee and plastic waste that gets sent to landfill and offer a closed loop coffee recycling service to business. The funding will be used to redesign and commercialise a product called Çurface that is a composite of waste coffee grounds and plastics. There is high demand from businesses to use Çurface as a construction material, however the processing costs are currently too high. Initial research suggests that a new processing design and technique could reduce the energy intensity, amount of materials and manual labour required in manufacture, making Çurface more commercially viable for its target customers. The feasibility study will conduct further investigations into this new processing technique, create prototypes and trial a closed loop coffee recycling service collecting coffee waste and then fitting the newly designed Çurface in a London-based coffee shop.

Rich Coles Packaging Associates Limited
Design of re-usable biomaterial packaging systems for the chilled meat and fish industry.
Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is a significant contributor to landfill – to a point where many city authorities, such as New York, are seeking to ban it’s use from food packaging. Finding viable alternatives to EPS is therefore a rapidly growing problem for a sustainable food industry. This study investigates the design of logistical packaging systems utilising biomaterials. These renewable resource materials offer greater durability for re-use, ease of compostability and recyclability. Layered or sandwiched biomaterial systems are especially appropriate for improved packaging design solutions as their properties e.g. insulation, can be highly tailored to the unique logistical/user and commercial needs across different sectors of the food industry. In addition they are a natural candidate for innovation e.g ‘flat-packing’ to assist reuse and return.

Soltropy Limited
Investigation of the use of silicone sponge tube and design study of other components in solar thermal collector
Most solar thermal systems in Northern Europe have a separate antifreeze filled loop for protection against freezing and require a new tank fitted with a heat exchanger. When retrofitting to existing homes this means that a perfectly good tank (usually copper) needs to be replaced. We have developed an innovative solution that allows a domestic water supply to be heated directly, without the secondary fluid cycle. This increases the efficiency of the system and reduces capital and installation costs. Our solution allows the system to freeze but cause no system damage by using a compressible closed cell silicone sponge tube within an outer copper pipe. When it freezes the compressible tube takes up the expansion due to the ice and prevents pressure build up and damage to the system. This study will determine the optimum specification of the silicone sponge tube by trialling various specifications of tubes and sizes in a real world situation as well as freeze tests.

Toyota (GB) PLC
Design requirements in product, process, organisation for End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) to achieve Circular Economy State
How can an innovative value chain promote a circular economy for End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs)? Toyota will address this challenge by investigating the opportunities to use innovative configurations of their value chain (system redesign options for ELV recovery and treatment system) to close the loop of materials embedded in ELVs. By better understanding the environmental, social and economic implications of such network configurations, this study will provide a strong foundation for Toyota to develop its business plan to move towards a circular economy for the wider benefit of UK society including Toyota customers.

Useful Simple Projects
Polarising designs: Redesigning neodymium magnets (NDM) for the circular economy.
Neodymium Disk Magnets (NDMs) are found in many everyday items, including; headphones, cordless tools, drive motors for hybrid cars, loudspeakers and microphones. Of the 66,800t produced worldwide, 33,000t of magnets are used in Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) each year, with a total carbon impact of 298,980tCO2e. Given the high value of the raw materials, the carbon emissions associated with their production and the rarity of neodymium (100 years at today’s consumption rates), it makes financial and economic sense to close the loop. We will carry out a feasibility study into the creation of standardised sizing for NDMs within the electronics sector, focusing on application within hard disk drives (HDDs). The study aims to design closed loop systems that will reduce consumption of virgin neodymium in ‘new’ magnets, and enable NDMs to be reclaimed during disposal of HDDs.

Useful Simple Projects
Design of new tools for closed loop manufacturing
A recent study by Mckinsey, entitled “Resource Revolution”, identified that security of supply and cost of materials pose a major threat to the manufacturing industry.  36% of the world’s raw materials are wasted as a result of inefficiencies and far too many resources end up in landfill. Population growth and rising prosperity in the developing world will make these issues more acute.  Re-thinking and re-engineering the product manufacturing industry around circular economy principles can help address these problems and reduce waste and pollution.  We are designing new product services and tools in collaboration with selected manufacturing businesses that will help them transition towards a closed loop approach to manufacturing. Lessons learned will be shared with industry at large and design and business colleges.

We All Design
Project Recover and unBuild: Beyond WEEE regulation
We are investigating the feasibility of using Kyocera products to drive new industry programme for the recovery, disassembly and reprocessing of materials, including those marked as critical by the EU, used in electrical goods. The hope is to retain all the materials value within the UK economy, increase supply chain security and decrease the environmental impact associated with mining raw materials.

One of this years recently announced winners, Chris Redford, who has just graduated from Product Design at Sheffield Hallam Uni, tells us about his winning ‘circular’ entry to the Change Makers brief, which asked students to “create and produce a design solution that persuades people to consume less, reduce waste and be more efficient with the planets resources”.

The RSA brief Change Makers was the first project of our final year studying an MDes Product Design course at Sheffield Hallam University. As a brief it was very open, providing a broad range of possible solutions. The main appeal of the brief was the way it aimed to create a more sustainable model of consumption by changing the consumer’s behaviour, and in our case this would be done through engaging with a product.

I began by identifying products which are disposed of when only a single component is at fault; products that isolate the consumer from the way they function. Very quickly I arrived at the washing machine. Speaking to an engineer, who repairs these machines on a daily basis, I found that the process of washing clothes is fairly simple. Therefore diagnosing a problem and identifying a fault can be fairly easy if you know where in the process the machine stopped working.

The solution I arrived at is Tinker: a repairable washing machine. It’s exposed visual style reveals all the major components to the user. The purpose of this is to empower the owner to understand which part has failed and gives them the confidence to approach it and replace broken parts.

Tinker is part of a close-loop system where the owner is encouraged to return broken parts to the manufacturer in exchange for a replacement at a reduced price. This benefits the manufacturer (as materials can be salvaged and re-used in future parts) as well as the consumer who has the support network behind them to fix their products and never needs to dispose of an entire appliance again. Through engaging with Tinker and the system that supports it, hopefully consumers will come away feeling educated, empowered and expecting more of the companies who provide domestic appliances.

Working on the Change Makers brief with the RSA has given me a new perspective on what considered design can achieve, apart from being commercially successful; it can be used to encourage change. It also gave me a direction to pursue for my graduation project Bloom an exposed inkjet printer which can be mounted to a wall. In many ways this is a continuation of the themes raised by the RSA in the Change Makers brief which I am very thankful to have been a part of.­

Take a quick look in your garage or shed and I’ll bet you find some old tins of paint. You may even find the 17 dried up or half empty tins the average UK household is estimated to have. As much as 50 million litres of paint are believed to go unused each year, adding to the UK’s landfill burden, affecting other materials recyclability, clogging up storage in our ever shrinking households.

That’s not to mention the invisible, but valuable resource being lost here too. Paint ingredients like Titanium Dioxide and petroleum-derived lattices are expensive to source (TiO₂ alone has seen a 50% plus price rise in the last 3 years), increasingly scarce and have high carbon footprints.

Clearly the paint category would benefit from some resource efficient thinking and ‘circular’ design. Our Technology Strategy Board (TSB) funded ‘New Design for the Circular Economy’ (NDCE) project – aptly titled ‘Project Recover’ – aims to do just that. To their credit, two of the three project partners, Akzo Nobel Paints and Newlife Paints are already active at the cutting edge of new systems to collect, recycle and reuse paint, working together to turn it into an as-new product for resale directly to the market.

Akzo Nobel works closely with Community RePaint to collect and reuse over 200,000 litres of ‘old’ paint for use on good causes and community projects. They also support Newlife Paints, a fledgling business, who quite miraculously turn old paint into new. You can even buy Newlife’s recycled paint in selected B&Q stores.

Yet there remain major challenges in scaling and speeding up paint recycling and reuse.  For example, closing-the-loop to the collect such dispersed, unused paint can be a real logistical challenge; while a particular design challenge is finding an efficient and effective way to decant used paint from old tins for reprocessing, after they are collected.

As the third project partner, Seymourpowell bring design and innovation expertise to these particular challenges. I was personally thrilled to see designers placed centrally in the TSB competition, and I’m convinced we can bring something to the Circular Economy party. There’s a real sense of circular design being something of a greenfield and that we are as much shaping the rules of the game, as solving a particular problem in these projects.

Our final solution may not yet be clear, but projecting forward, I’d love it if we played a small part in helping make ‘preloved’ paint a mainstream and commercial success. More certain though is the value of the TSB funding and the RSA Great Recovery support. Without it, I doubt we’d be coming together in quite this way, as no one actor within this paint system could possibly tackle the problems alone.

The deadline for round 2 of the TSB NDCE competition is almost upon us and I’d urge you to take a look. Innovation competitions like this allow the sort of experiments that don’t always come through in the traditional designer-client relationship, so it a rare chance to do something both innovative and meaingful. The prize for us getting it right is that sweet spot of better solutions for people, profit and planet – and in the process helping designing-out 60,000 tons of paint waste from UK landfills,

Chris Sherwin, Head of Sustainability, Seymourpowell
http://blog.seymourpowell.com

The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £5m in highly innovative collaborative research and development that encourages the development and application of sustainable materials, products and processes.

DEADLINE APPROACHING: 24th April

To learn more, visit the _connect site.

Closed Loop LED Bulb
The Agency of Design Ltd.
Feasibility study into the redesign of an LED light bulb from the focus of cyclic materials.

Connected closed loop kettle
The Agency of Design Ltd.
Feasibility study into the redesign of a kettle from the focus of cyclic materials.

Sustainable Retail Design: A Closed Loop Life Cycle Assessment strategy
4G Design
This feasibility study will demonstrate potential new and innovative ways of designing and manufacturing retail fixtures that are environmentally preferable.

Substitution for non-recyclable fireproof foam and lightweighting for dematerialisation
Alsitek Ltd
Exploring substitution for non-recyclable fireproof foam and lightweighting for dematerialisation.

A new design for a handheld reusable non-invasive breath test for blood glucose monitoring and diabetes self-management
Applied Nanodetectors Ltd
Looking to assess the feasibility of developing a hand held reusable non-invasive breath test device for blood glucose monitoring and diabetes self-management of diabetes.

Electric Vehicle Battery Remanufacturing (EV BATT-RE)
Autocraft Drivetrain Solutions Ltd
This study aims to dematerialise electric vehicle battery packs by introducing a remanufacturing service.

The RE-Fab House: Enabling Re-Useable Construction
Ecobond (Cymru) Ltd
The RE-Fab project is a building design concept which will allow the efficient construction of houses using sustainable regionally manufactured components.

Ecocap Ltd
Ecocap Limited
Ecocap Limited is developing a bottle cap made from PET plastic as a means of facilitating the recycling of plastic bottle caps.

Freight*Lift palletless material handling system
Hugh Frost Designs Ltd
A concept which uses static “receptors” to eliminate of wooden pallets, many of which are single trip, and the costs and carbon footprint associated with collecting empty pallets and returning them to the primary producer for reloading.

Reusable Hashi made from Disposable Hashi Waste and Biopolymer
KeepCup Ltd
KeepCup Ltd and Sprout Design Ltd are conducting research into a new foodservice related items based on closed loop manufacturing, and reducing waste. These relate to the bring your own movement which is exemplified by the KeepCup.

Circular Design and Processing of Green Sustainable Products of Material Benefit
NewCatCo
This study proposes to replace the linear take-make-dispose vehicle exhaust three-way catalysts with a greener, more sustainable, more easily regenerated/recycled vehicle exhaust catalysts (VECs) of low-energy, low material demand, easier regeneration/recycling and better material circularity.

Modular Bicycle Frames
Raw Studio Ltd
Rawstudio has investigated the design and production of bicycle frames and has developed a disruptive business model and process to challenge the mass production cycle industry and close the loop to a wholly UK based process, involving online bespoke ordering, high-value customised rapid manufacturing, local production and design for disassembly, modularity and repair.

Closed-loop manufacture using recycled Uk Polymer (CUP) – Systematique
Systematique Ltd
Systematique have designed a globally unique low-cost, flat-pack fashion bust (retail torso mannequin) made from sheet PP. This study will establish the feasibility of implementing a closed-loop circular system for UK manufacture using UK polymer recyclate, with recycling at EoL.

Servicing Greener Cities
Treebox Ltd
Treebox sell and install greenwalls. These are panel systems for growing plants vertically, which has a number of environmental benefits and restorative features. This project sets out to investigate the feasibility of Treebox moving to leasing business model. It will also carry out a design study, assessing the environmental impacts of Treebox’s two products using LCA and then re-concepting the designs.