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IKEA Life Cycle Assessment: BILLY Bookcase
Team | Ben Ge | Deema Almujadidi | Deidre Washington | Larissa Yoshiura
IKEA is a Swedish multinational group that works to offer products with great design at affordable prices. The IKEA concept is successfully supported by long-term supplier relationships, investments in new technologies and large scale production techniques.
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CHALLENGE
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To develop a viable solution, we studied the disposal processes of furniture in general, as well as existing IKEA processes that could somehow inspire or collaborate in a new disposal-pickup-recycling process for unwanted IKEA furniture, in this case, BILLY Bookcases.
After an extensive research, particleboard recycling proved to be the most viable and efficient alternative.
Pilot Project: BILLY Bookcase in NYC
This project aims to implement a new process in IKEA products’ lifecycle in order to:
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reduce the amount of IKEA products ending up in landfills;
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promote short and long term cost savings in the process of particleboard acquisition.
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SOLUTION
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