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Asthma Puffer - Sustainable Re-Design - Coggle Diagram
Asthma Puffer - Sustainable Re-Design
Consumer
"They are addictive when you are feeling sick. You take an asthma puffer, then once you feel better you feel like you should use it again."
"I don't know what affect asthma puffers have on the environment."
"I only use an asthma puffer when I am feeling un-well or when I have a viral infection."
"It takes around five minutes to really kick in and help my breathing."
"I am not aware on the chemicals used in an asthma puffer."
These answers show that the client has no idea what is at risk for the environment and themselves when they take asthma puffers.
Sustainbility
Economical
Economic sustainability is a practice that supports long-term economic growth without negatively impacting social, environmental and cultural aspects of the community.
Ecological
Ecological sustainability is defined as the maintenance or restoration of the composition, structure, and process of ecosystems including the diversity of plant and animal communities and the productive capacity of ecological systems.
Social
Social sustainability focuses on the need to "put people first" in the development process.
Asthma Puffer now
Asthma Puffers are seen to be used as an advantage when doing sport.
Asthma Puffers can be addicting and used wrongly
Most inhalers expire one year after they're issued, and many people may still be effective up to one year after that exploration date.
During research it is shown that inhalers impact global warming significantly specifically because of the potent chemicals used (the pMDIs).
Some people may use inhalers too much and can get some bad side effects from it;
headaches
-dizziness
-chest pain
Asthma puffers can cause weight gain and oral thrush
Too much use of an inhaler can cause weak lungs and they could be un-responsive to the medication.
Inhalers can cause long term effects.
Around 2.7 million (11%) Australians have asthma and use inhalers
Asthma puffers used in Australia have multiple bad chemicals that the consumers never even heard of, for example;
-Fluticasone
-Salmeterol (Advair Diskus, AirDuo, Digihaler,)
-Budesonide
-Formoterol
-Mometasone
-Formoterol (Dulera)
Design Ideas
A bubble with a filter whenever you are taking the asthma puffer. To minimize the release of chemicals in the environment.
Removing certain chemicals from the asthma puffer to help with consumption and the environment.
Mouth device to put in your mouth whenever you use an asthma puffer. To help the ingredients in the asthma puffer to stay in your system for longer.
Being able to re-fill your inhaler with a doctors prescription, so it decreases rubbish of thrown out inhalers, and reduces the chemicals left out in the rubbish etc.