Design of products with recycled plastics: Towards a design aid

The increasing amounts of plastics waste over the last decades, has given an incentive to recycle more material into new products. This is in line with the prevailing ecodesign strategies developed in academia today. This paper tries to bridge the gap between these strategies and the actual knowledge needed by students and designers in general to carry these out in their design projects. The paper presents a set of enablers and constraints to be considered when designing products with recycled plastics. It is believed that such an overview will make existing knowledge more easily accessible, and stimulate the use of recycled plastics in design.