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The relationship between plastics and disposable domestic products like cutlery has a long history in Design. For long time, the use of thermoplastics has been seen as the most cost-effective solution to meet the market demands with an affordable solution ‘for all’. Only in last decades the society got the awareness that this way of producing products is unsustainable for many reasons: environmental wastes, ecological threats, pollution and lack of lifecycle strategies. An alternative creative approach for the sustainable design and manufacturing of cutlery is needed to overcome this unsustainable business model. In this study, we present the research and design results that have allowed to proposing an original sustainable 3D printed solution for mitigating the use of disposable plastic in cutlery sector.
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The analysis of the Scenario is discussed in the work of Rossi and Di Nicolantonio [6].
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Students across all levels in the BA Design program at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
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This paper shows the result of a research carried out in the Antonello Vespoli’s M.Arch. dissertation conducted at the ‘G. d’Annunzio’ University of Chieti-Pescara, in Italy (tutors: Massimo Di Nicolantonio, Emilio Rossi and Giovanni Annese). The design results here presented have allowed to proposing an original solution for mitigating the use of disposable plastic in cutlery sector.
The various paragraphs of this paper are the result of a collective dialogue between authors on the current role of Sustainable 3D printing and its implication for the Industrial Design domain. However, the writing of the various sections of this paper can be attributed to Massimo Di Nicolantonio for Paragraphs 3, 4, 5 and 6, and to Emilio Rossi for Abstract, Paragraphs 1 and 2.
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Di Nicolantonio, M., Rossi, E., Vespoli, A., Annese, G. (2021). Reusable Kit for 3D Printable Sustainable Cutlery. In: Trzcielinski, S., Mrugalska, B., Karwowski, W., Rossi, E., Di Nicolantonio, M. (eds) Advances in Manufacturing, Production Management and Process Control. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 274. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80462-6_6
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