Development of a novel joining and sustainable laminating technology to enable a true cradle to cradle solution for office furniture manufactured from a single material - cardboard (CardOffice)

办公家具的寿命很短，例如桌子的平均寿命只有5年。这些产品通常不会被回收，尽管大多数材料是可回收的，因为不同的材料（木材，塑料，金属）的组成，85%的材料会被填埋。这意味着自然资源的巨大损失、垃圾填埋税的支付以及再利用、再循环和碳节约的机会的丧失。cardooffice项目将以长笛办公室所获得的专业知识为基础，创造一种由80%的再生纸和20%的可持续原始材料制成的单一材料办公桌，创造一系列真正的从摇篮到摇篮的办公家具。为了做到这一点，我们需要一些纸板连接解决方案，使我们能够创造出坚固且易于制造的产品，并采用可持续的方法翻新产品。该项目将开发技术，使我们能够用一种易于翻新的材料创造出全系列真正可持续的办公家具。这样做的好处是可以重复使用办公家具，并避免垃圾填埋，因为在使用寿命结束时不需要拆卸和材料分类。第一个目标将是确定卡到卡连接解决方案的关键参数和指标，并使用此信息创建多个连接解决方案。第二个目标是确定我们可以通过撇脂和层压来翻新产品的材料和工艺。然后将设计两件实验性家具，并制造基本原型。然后，这些将由家具行业研究协会根据设计配置进行测试和验证，并由一系列最终用户评估美学和实用性。

Office furniture has a short life span with desks for example having an average life of only 5years. These products are not generally recycled despite most of the materials beingrecyclable due to the makeup of the different materials (wood, plastic, metal) with 85% goingto landfill. This represents significant loss of natural resource, payment of landfill tax and lostopportunity to reuse, recycle and carbon savings.The CardOffice project will build on the expertise gained by Flute Office in creating a singlematerial office desk manufactured from 80% recycled paper and 20% sustainably sourcedvirgin material to create a range of genuinely cradle to cradle office furniture. To enable us todo this we require a number of cardboard only joining solutions to enable us to create strongand easy to manufacture products and a sustainable method of refurbishing the product.The project will develop the knowhow to enable us to create a full range of truly sustainableoffice furniture from a single material which can be easily refurbished. This would have thebenefit of reusing office furniture and avoiding landfill by removing the need to dismantle andmaterial sorting at end of life.The first aim will be to determine the critical parameters and metrics for a card to card joiningsolution and use this information to create a number of joining solutions. The second aim willbe to determine the materials and process by which we can refurbish products throughskimming and laminating. Two pieces of experimental furniture will then be designed andbasic prototypes manufactured. These will then be tested and validated against the designconfiguration by the Furniture Industry Research Association and evaluated for aesthetics andpracticability by a range of end users.