LIQUID PACKAGING

LIQUID PACKAGING

          This is my first post of the  Design Process course of semester two.I started with the mind mapping of the things regarding to liquid packaging process.Here is my problem statement,

STATEMENT: Discussing the problems about liquid packaging process and find an alternative solution for it.

         

           The above picture shows the brain mapping of a statement, Liquid Packaging. After brain mapping, I divided the points into some groups which can be linked up together. I divided them by using different shapes.Later, I wrote down some keywords of problems according to them. They are as follows,
1.Problems with soda cup.
2.Economical problems.
3.Environmental problems.

          Focusing on these keywords, I did a little survey. Survey lead me to the following points:

• After using the soda cup, we throw it into a trash which is non-degradable.
• The lids of these cups  are not stay and put.They easily pops up when the glass gets collapsed.
• Plastic is not a good conductor of heat so when we put hot coffee in it, it do not insulate heat but the coffee gets cool too fast. As a result, you have to get luke warm coffee.
• But the cups need to withstand the high temperature and the pressure involved in brewing coffee.So they are tougher and not recyclable.
• Soda cups can't get microwaved. (by observation)
• Those are easily bendable and the lids of it doesn't properly fit on the cups.
• Sometimes liquid gets trapped between the edge of the lid and the rim of the cup.Even if the server wipe it down, it will still leak anyway from the side of the cup.
• They are not recyclable so they end up in landfills.
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• It takes more than 20 years to decompose such plastic which is not good for environment.
• Its astounding that after decades of 'reduce-reuse-recycle'campaigns, we still accept disposable,non-recyclable or not biodegradable products.

This is my work from 5.4.16 to 13.4.16

I will be posting some remaining points till end of this week.
Thank you!