Material Selection

What type of material should we use for a case designed with Eco in mind? A case to provide protection of notebook computer and promote green PC consumption should be at least design for resource conservation and use environmental preferred materials.

The material should be

• Abundant and nontoxic.
• Use natural material rather than synthetic materials.
• Use recycled material rather than raw material extracted from earth.
• Generate minimum scrap and waste and the waste will have less impact on earth.

Generally we have three type of material to make the case

• Genuine leather
• Synthetic fabric
• Metal

Material Selection

Leather

We do not select leather because it taking skin of cow and lamb, treat it with various substances which including mineral salts, formaldehyde, coal tar derivatives and various oils, dyes and chemical, some of the them are cyanide-based. Most leather is Chrome-tanned and it can give the environment chrome pollution.

Material Selection

Fabric

We do not prefer synthetic fabric because it is not natural material and most of them is the by product of oil. During the production of the material, it will employ a lot of chemical and it is not good for the environment.

Material Selection

Metal

After some study and we find Aluminum will be the best metal to build the case, because it is one of the most abundant elements in the world, it is one of world most common adapted recycled and recyclable material for manufacturing. The material can provide both mechanical and environmental properties suitable for an Eco-design notebook computer case.