The Wasted! exhibit allows visitors to explore how much the ecological backpacks of three different tomato product packages weigh. The exhibit also demonstrates how much raw material gets wasted per 100 packets.
The life cycle of a household product consists of the acquisition of the raw materials, the manufacture of the product, transportation and the number of times the product can be used. Each stage of the product life cycle has an impact on the environment. The more encumbered the environment becomes, the heavier the ecological backpack of the product in question. If a product ends up in a landfill site as mixed waste, the raw materials used to manufacture it will all go to waste instead of being recycled.
The weight of a product’s ecological backpack is defined in terms of MIPS (Material Input per Service unit, MI/S). MI is the total input of renewable and non-renewable natural resources throughout the product’s life cycle. S refers to service unit, that is, the number of times a service is used. Thanks to MIPS, it is easy to show the environmental impact of individual products and goods.
Updated 28.8.2007/KT
