El reciclaje como necesidad y responsabilidad social del diseñador.

Abstract

The industrial design is the activity proyectual that is guided to conceive in way original products seriados, putting emphasis in the form, function and use with a high-priority focus toward the user.

The objective of the present work is guided to meditate about the importance that has the reciclaje of the products that are designed, because to recycle is no longer an option, it is a necessity and a social responsibility.

Therefore, the designer with social conscience should take in consideration, among other, the increase of the functional qualities of the products designed by him, and the qualities of the materials used in the products. Among them that the used materials can be recycled at the end of their cycle of life, to produce new goods of consumption of quality and durability. It is also an ethical, social and economic problem.

Thanks to the reciclaje the disuse of materials is prevented potentially useful, he/she decreases the consumption of new matters cousins and energy, and the environmental contamination is mitigated.

 The election of recyclable materials, such as metals, paper, cardboard, glass, textile and some plastics, it constitutes a good idea for the design of products with such characteristics.

The election of the material to use is a complex problem. Today advanced methods that allow the designers the most appropriate election exist. To dominate these methods is of a lot of importance for their varied impacts.