Waste Reduction By Altruistic Design

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If you search around long enough on words such as altruism and design–both topics we pay attention to on this site–eventually you will encounter these folks. This particular product caught our attention and we see no harm in promoting it:

GOEDZAK IS A SPECIAL GARBAGE BAG FOR ITEMS THAT ARE STILL USEABLE. IT’S A FRIENDLY WAY TO OFFER PRODUCTS A SECOND CHANCE AND STIMULATE SUSTAINABLE BEHAVIOR.

Whether it’s that purple vase your sister-in-law got you, or that particular coffee-pad-loving coffeemachine (you know the one) that’s been lying in the basement for ages; everybody owns items that are no longer of value to them. Every now and then we throw out these items, while they still might be of value and/or useful to others. These items disappear in grey garbage bags and end up on trash piles. Goedzak offers these items a second chance. Goedzak stimulates people to dispose of their products in a more conscious and sustainable way. Goedzak can extend the products’ lifetime.

Goedzak is one of the resulting designs from my graduation project “Design for Altruism” at Delft University of Technology, for studio KVD | reframing. My goal was to design products that stimulate people to act to benefit others, preferably complete strangers. For more info about this project download my Vision in Design report ‘Design for Altruism’.

Simon Akkaya.

More about Goedzak > visit thewww.degoedzak.nl

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