Disposable Camera Redesign Engineering Design Project 1 Team 2

1. Disposable Camera RedesignEngineering Design Project 1Team 2 Zach Wilkoski Jake Ergler Marty Kirschnick Tim Riley

2. Table of Contents • Sustainable Design Process • Explanation of E-Waste • How a disposable camera works • Our Proposal • Conclusion • Question and Answer Period

3. Our Goal • Redesign a Kodak Single-Use camera into a more sustainable and eco-friendly product.

4. Sustainable Design • Sustainable design is the process of designing products so they do not have as much as a negative impact on the environment and society. • Sustainable design employs three different factors.-Environmental-Economical-Social

5. Environmental • The environmental portion is pretty self explanatory. • The environmental portion takes into account manufacture, use, and disposal of the product.

6. Economical • The economical portion is balancing the eco-friendly design with economics • Eco-friendly design is commonly more expensive, and therefore is less commonly used. • With vast technological improvements in the realm of eco-friendly design it has become more cost effective to recycle and use eco-friendly materials.

7. Social • You can not produce a product without having the backing by the public. • You can not make a product eco-friendly without keeping it user friendly and marketable. • If the public does not like your eco-friendly product, then it will not sell and you won’t make money, therefore the eco-friendly design is wasted.

8. Why use sustainable design? • In recent years, becoming environmentally conscience has become the norm. • With more and more people becoming aware of problems facing our environment, the need to produce environmentally friendly products has grown. • Even government legislation has started to force companies to improve their manufacturing processes and also have begun to fine companies.

9. Problems • The problems facing sustainable design focus around electronics. • With technology improving everyday products are increasing improved and sold, while the outdated models are tossed away. • This is called electronic waste or E-Waste.

10. E-Waste • E-Waste is a waste type consisting of any broken or unwanted electrical or electronic appliance. • These can include old cell phones, obsolete computers, old televisions, and other electrical appliances. http://ndep.nv.gov/ewaste/photos/monitors.jpg

11. Problems with E-Waste • E-Waste can not be disposed of in a regular fashion like most other waste because it contains hazardous chemicals that if leaked into the environment can cause many harmful health effects. www.health-safety-signs.uk.com

12. Problems with E-Waste Continued • Environmental: Landfill use may lead to groundwater pollution, Burning in illegal dump yards pollutes the air, over 1000 toxic substances within electronics • Social: “Donating” to other countries sounds good, but not always carried out properly. Under-developed countries take waste because of economical issues, not to aid countries’ dumping. • Economical: Cost of moving e-waste can run between $2.50 - $2000 per ton (1998) http://www.isa.org/Content/ContentGroups/News/20051/April28/Pintos_Point__The_serious_problems_of_e-waste.htm

13. E-Waste Recycling • This is the best way to deal with E-Waste. • It means reusing parts so that they are not just dumped somewhere. • Making electrical components easier to recycle, or using recycled goods to produced products means less E-Waste problems. www.restormel.gov.uk

14. Research • In order to understand the camera overall, we disassembled the camera and accessed which components were most important overall to the operation of the camera and what we could improve on the camera to make it more sustainable.

15. Packaging • The packaging overall is made of paperboard with an ink covering. • The camera also comes in a protective foil to block out sunlight and dust.

16. Black plastic casing (2 pieces) • Outer shell of the camera • Protects the inner, smaller pieces • Holds camera together with 4 clips

17. Viewfinder • The viewfinder is solid plastic piece that augments the light coming into the viewfinder to allow the viewer to see all the area that the camera is capturing.

18. Battery and Electronic Flash • 1.5V Battery provides power for flash • Capacitor stores charge to operate the flash. • Circuit board allows components to be connected • Work in unison to create flash when shutter is pressed

19. Lens and Shutter Mechanism • Lens is plastic, sits on shutter mechanism. • The actual shutter is under the lens then is primed by the thumb crank on the outside of the camera.

20. Film and Reel • When the camera is being cranked the crank turns the photo counter and also the small wheel above the lens which moves the film so that each time an unexposed piece of film is behind the lens.

21. Kodak Recycles • The one time use camera are designed and tested to have the potential to be reused up to 10 times. • Lenses are ground and sold to outside plastic recycling venders. • Paperboard outer shell is burned in a waste-to-energy incinerator. • Polystyrene plastic parts which includes the front and rear cover are ground up and molded into new camera parts. • Kodak's recycling return rate is over 70% in the U.S. and over 60% worldwide.

22. Results from Disassembly • Based on the disassembly of the camera we have determined that the main areas of focus for redesign should focus around replacing or modifying the power source and the overall casing of the camera.

23. Our Proposal • Different ideas to change the camera • Thinner Plastic Shell • Remove the Flash Function • Rechargeable Battery • AAA Battery • Hand-Held Generator www.learta.com

24. Screening Matrix

25. Level of Importance

26. Weighted Matrix

27. Thinner Plastic • Reduced plastic thickness by 25% • Maintains majority of protection to inner parts • Saves money on materials • Less plastic that will have to be recycled or produced

28. Rechargeable Batteries • Requires no major modifications to the camera • Base cost may be higher but long run will be cheaper since batteries don’t have to be replaced • Lowers e-waste since batteries are no longer thrown away

29. Conclusion • After the review of the disposable camera, we have determined the overall design of the camera is pretty sound and the best way to improve it would be to use more environmentally friendly parts and materials. • We believe that replacing the battery with a rechargeable battery and using thinner plastics would be the best way to improve the sustainability of the product while keeping or improving the marketability of the product.

30. Questions