Toys and Sustainability

This book presents five interesting chapters dealing with the sustainability of toys. The concept of sustainability has reached all industrial sectors these days and being practiced in almost all the sectors. One of the main sectors where sustainability has to be embedded to the core is the toy sector. Needless to enumerate the importance of sustainability in this sector especially when it comes to usage of chemicals and so on. There are various elements associated with the sustainability of toys and there is a dearth of published literature on this subject.

Highlights recent advances about sustainability in the toy sector Presents sustainable approaches to toy design and contemporary play Includes case study on wooden toys produced from wood waste by urban afforestation

Autorentext

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

Inhalt
Design And Production Process of Toy Prototypes Using Urban Forestry Waste.- On Longevity and Lost Toys: Sustainable Approaches to Toy Design and Contemporary Play.- Tips For Selecting Wood From Urban Afforestation for The Production of Toys: How The Sustainable Reuse of Waste can Result In Economic, Environmental And Social Benefits.- The Pile of Shame: The Personal and Social Sustainability of Collecting and Hoarding Miniatures.- Wooden Toys Produced from Wood Waste From Urban Afforestation: Acceptance and Implementation Strategies.