23/04/2010 – Going back to when I spoke to my Granddad about my project and he said a piece of sustainable design was the Swiss army knife as it the only thing that has changed about it in all the years it has been on the market is they have changed the plastic part on it as they used to make it with a material called Bakelite a substance which resembles plastic and was used before plastic came along. Isn’t this something to think about how a manufacture can run for this long and have never been out of business? Why is this? As hi-tech things such as iPod and game boys etc are out of date within months. Image from :
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