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Award recognizes those who design with recycling in mind
(Washington, DC) – The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the Voice of the Recycling Industry™, today released a call for entries for the 2015 Design for Recycling (DFR) Award. The DFR Award is ISRI’s highest award given annually to the most outstanding contribution to products designed with recycling in mind. It recognizes proactive steps made by manufacturers who have actively incorporated DFR principles into products and processes.
“When designing a product, manufacturers should be giving just as much of a priority to the product’s ability to be recycled as manufacturers do cost, appearance, and other factors,” said Robin Wiener, president of ISRI. “Effective recycling begins at the drawing board. ReMA is looking to reward companies, designers, and manufacturers with the mindset of producing products that can be recycled safely and with ease, thus benefiting both the environment and the economy.” ISRI began the award more than 25 years ago. Previous winners include Cascades Fine Papers Group, Coca-Cola Recycling Company, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and last year’s winner Dell Inc. To be eligible for ISRI’s Design for Recycling Award, a product must be designed/redesigned and manufactured to:
Interested parties can enter online before the January 31, 2015 deadline. The winner will be announced at the ReMA 2015 Convention and Exposition to be held April 21-25 in Vancouver, Canada.
Last year’s winner, Dell Inc.’s Dell Latitude 10 and XPS 10 tablets, and its Latitude E7240 laptop were designed with recycling in mind. Dell accomplished this by striving for modularity in design, clear labeling of parts for identification, minimal used of glues/adhesives, and convenient disassembly guides. The company’s use of recycled materials, including nearly 8 million pounds of recycled-content plastic in its desktops and monitors, sustainable bamboo and mushrooms for cushion material, and post-harvest wheat waste mixed with recycled-content corrugate for boxes further adds to Dell’s dedication to recycling from the very early stages of product creation.
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