PTLW 2 - 3.1 Making An Impact

To decrease the amount of products purchased or produced with the intent of minimizing waste.

• Reduce

• Recycle

• Reuse

• Compost

The process of making new products from materials that were used in another product.

• Reduce

• Recycle

• Reuse

• Compost

Criteria

• Desired specifications (elements or features) of a product or system.

• Pleasing in appearance.

• A limit to the design process. Constraints may be such things as appearance, funding, space, materials, and human capabilities.

• A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and constraints,

The conversion of dead vegetation into useful soil through the process of decay.

• Reduce

• Recycle

• Reuse

• Compost

Power Grid

• A collection of wind turbines used to create electricity.

• A system of high-tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region.

• A propeller driven by the wind and connected to a generator. The wind makes it turn the generator, which produces electricity.

• Energy derived from wind by means of windmills or wind turbines.

The stages a product goes through, including obtaining raw materials, processing, manufacturing, packaging, transporting, using, and disposing or recycling.

• Landfill

• Incinerate

• Pollution

• Product Life Cycle

To destroy by burning.

• Landfill

• Incinerate

• Pollution

• Product Life Cycle

A contaminant to the environment, especially human-made waste.

• Landfill

• Incinerate

• Pollution

• Product Life Cycle

A material that is human-made or is from natural resources that are used to produce a product.

• Landfill

• Raw Material

• Pollution

• Product Life Cycle

The ratio of the useful energy delivered by a dynamic system to the energy supplied to it.

• Environment

• Efficiency

• Power

• Conservation