The disassembly and life cycle analysis was a really interesting exercise in many ways. Firstly i never realised how many products go into a toaster to make a simple piece of toast. Secondly i didnt realise that 90% of the toaster would end up in land fill all around the world and how much energy is used to transport the product from china, to australia from the docks to the warehouse, to the retailer and then to your home. Does this warrant me making toast every morning?
Green fly was a great website that i will definitely use again. You are able to enter usage, products manufacturing, transport etc. It is a real eye opener and recommend everyone to at least use it once to see the carbon footprints of all the products we love.
Our groups main findings you can see below in the report but the two main aspects i was chocked about was the transport and the landfill.
Overall a great exercise.
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