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Carpet cleaner life cycle, Manufacture, Use & maintenance, Packaging…
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Manufacture
Plastic nurdles are shipped to manufacturing facilities to be used to manufacture moulded plastics for use in the main body of the machine
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Use & maintenance
Some parts can be removed and replaced by the user in the case of breakage, with spares available to purchase
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Plugged into domestic electricity for use, to power the machine and to heat the water
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Material extraction
Natural resources
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Steel
Made from iron and coke
Iron mined wordwide - Australia, Brazil, China, India, Russia, biggest producers (wikipedia)
Coke, superheated treated coal, mined worldwide.
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Mining iron ore has a negative impact on air quality in the areas around the mine (Iron Ore Company of Canada, 2014)
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18% of greenhouse gas emissions are related to the use of crude oil that is then used for for plastics manufacturing, 2.8 billion metric tonnes per year ( International Council on Clean Transportation, 2010)
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230,000 tonnes of nurdles end up in oceans every year, mainly accidental release from container ships. These are mistaken for food by sealife resulting in their death, and wash up on beaches infected with ecoli causing potential harm to humans and contributing to marine rubbish patches (McVeigh, 2021)
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Damaged or faulty parts cannot be user-repaired, the brittle plastics used are prone to breakage and cannot be fixed, and some parts are sealed in a way that makes proper cleaning impossible and so they must simply be discarded and replaced. The plastics used are not fully recyclable and so the items are likely to contribute to landfill.
The chemicals used in carpet cleaning fluid can be toxic to marine and aquatic life with long lasting effects (CleanPro, 2019). As most users will empty carpet cleaner tanks into the water supply, meaning any leaks would result in these chemicals reaching the environment untreated.
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