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Can you work towards this target? Redesign a familiar product so that it has less (and more sustainable) packaging. Packaging is important because it: protects products – how would you stop eggs from breaking if they weren’t in a box? helps to sell products – would those sweets look as tempting if they were sold loose? provides information about products – from ingredients and use by dates to instructions and safety warnings. Yet from an environmental point of view, packaging poses huge problems. In the UK, we throw away 30 million tonnes of household waste each year, a large proportion of which is packaging from supermarkets and convenience stores. Recognising the problem, Environment Minster Elliot Morley has launched a new £8 million fund to encourage companies to develop ‘environmentally-smart’ retail packaging design. By reducing the amount of materials used and encouraging packaging designers to look at new materials, the scheme hopes to reduce the amount of packaging waste. In this unit you will:  gain knowledge and understanding of the design and make process  understand who you are designing for by creating a customer profile  design and label a range of products  write a design specification  produce a step-by-step plan for making your product  make a quality product.  add 10 keywords to your vocabulary. Adhesive, Product, Production, Sustainable, Volume, Batch, CAM (computer-aided manufacture), Quality, Wastage, Industry, Packaging

Visit the learning page at and look at the Did you know? facts. Follow the links and collect your own fascinating facts about packaging and write them down here.

Go to the Research page at ((need specific address for this part of the site)) and read the information about designing packaging that causes the least possible harm to people and the environment. Using words and pictures, create a ‘mood board’ in the cogs below to illustrate the theme of green packaging. Using words and pictures create a ‘mood board’ in the cogs below to illustrate the theme of green packaging.

1. What type of packaging is it? What is it made from? 4. Draw the packaging. How much does it weigh? How big is it? 5. Take the packaging apart. Draw and label each part. 2. How has it been made? What equipment was needed to make it? How have different pieces been joined? 3. What is likely to happen to the packaging after it has been used? How will it be disposed of? Choose an example of sustainable packaging (for example, something made from recycled materials that can be recycled itself; a milk bottle that can be used time and time again). Fill in the boxes below.

Choose an example of packaging that is not so sustainable (for example, something that is not made from recycled materials and is likely to end its life in a landfill site). Fill in the boxes below. 1. What type of packaging is it? What is it made from? 4. Draw the packaging. How much does it weigh? How big is it? 5. Take the packaging apart. Draw and label each part. 2. How has it been made? What equipment was needed to make it? How have different pieces been joined? 3. What is likely to happen to the packaging after it has been used? How will it be disposed of?

I want my packaging to: _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________

Who is going to buy and use the product you are packaging? What do they like? What don’t they like? Write, draw and stick pictures here to show the type of customer you are designing for. Carry out a survey and ask some possible customers what they would like. Write some of their comments in the speech bubbles below.

How can you join and combine material to make your packaging? Write, draw and stick examples here to show the different joining methods you could use.

Using your research, specification and customer profile, draw at least FIVE different design ideas for green packaging. Remember to consider the sustainability of your product. Label your drawings and explain any changes that you decide to make to your design. You can start your ideas on this page and continue on the following page(s) Remember to evaluate your work as it develops. Ask yourself: 1. Which is your favourite design and why? 2. How could you improve it? 3. List at least three pieces of equipment you would use to make it. 4. What other features can you comment on? ‘Four million tonnes of food packaging end up in British landfill sites each year’

Look back at your specification and your design ideas to select the most appropriate design. Draw your final design here.

Equipment Use Draw and write a step-by-step plan for making your packaging. Fill in the chart below to show what equipment you are going to use to make your packaging. How do you plan to use each piece of equipment?

Personal evaluation Overall, how do you think you tackled this project? What were your strengths and weaknesses? What did you enjoy most? What did you find easy? What was difficult? Try to be as detailed as possible. Design work Identify two faults with your design work and suggest improvements you could make. 1) Fault: Improvement: 2) Fault: Improvement: Practical work Identify two faults with your practical work and suggest improvements you could make. 1) Fault: Improvement: 2) Fault: Improvement: How could you have improved your work on this project? Try to think about the way you worked, rather than about your final product.

Now it is time to judge the quality of your final product using your design specification. In the table below, fill in what you said you wanted your packaging to do (your specification) and then say how well your final packaging does each of these things. I wanted my packaging to:How well does it do this? Assessment Effort level: Designing and making level: My targets for the next project are:

Exploring existing ideasProduct specificationExploring ideasDeveloping & modelling ideas Generating design ideasFinal designPlanningEvaluation