Return to Sender

在英国，每年有3500万把画笔被丢弃，堵塞垃圾填埋场，浪费资源，估计产生5000吨废物。在大多数情况下，由于消费者清洁不良，刷子被丢弃，而手柄可以立即重复使用。其他“循环”障碍是没有闭环收集系统存在，以采取用过的刷子回来，加上合适的寿命结束的选择，他们也不清楚。这个项目将看到翠鸟和Seymourpowell探索一个系统的设计，重新加载刷头，使消费者可以维护和重复使用他们的画笔手柄。作为这一计划的一部分，我们计划设计一个可回收的包装系统，消费者可以将使用过的刷头放入原始包装中，并将其邮寄回零售商，零售商将确定和管理一个循环的生命周期，以避免垃圾填埋-无论是重复使用，还是作为技术或生物循环。

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.