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Improving Safety and Reducing Waste Though Eliminating Work

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Goal

Reduce pollution of a cosmetics or beauty products' manufacturer

Problem

Unpacking products before sale causes ergonomic injuries to people and generates waste

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Pollution is alleviated through encasing products in a manner that eliminates or minimizes the need for external packaging. For instance, a manufacturer of cosmetics or beauty products implements a system of enclosing its products by exploiting the flexible configuration of one of them to use it to wrap a shippable quantity of the others, thereby containing them. Ideally, no other packaging is required Handling the products involved is safer, more efficient, and eco-friendly because unpacking is as simple as undoing the ‘wrapping’ item, and the need for packaging disposal is non-existent or minimal

Breeding Hint 1

Think about how you might redesign the packaging of your products to eliminate altogether the need for a separate container or outer covering. This should preempt workplace injuries caused by unpacking and significantly reduce packaging pollution

Breeding Hint 2

Think how you might eliminate time-consuming and troublesome steps from the routine work processes that people perform. This is a certain way of increasing their productivity and doing so sustainably

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