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Student project
Graduation project by Henriette Hjortshøj
- Designer
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Henriette Hjortshøj
- Education
- Master
- Skill
- Accessory Design
- Focus area
- Design for Planet
- Year
- 2023
Background
The health sector in Denmark is responsible for more than six percent of the country's CO2 emissions, and that is two percentage points above the world average.
Graduation project by Henriette Hjortshøj
Eyeing the high potential for improvement, the designer investigates circular principles and the opportunities for optimization of the sorting and recycling process related to the resource-rich materials that are discarded in the departments of surgery at the hospitals of the Central Jutland region. The emphasis is on simplicity and flexibility in order that the sorting solutions can fit smoothly into the clinically tight and changeable framework of the surgery departments.
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