DfD

"Will a product need to be repaired? Which parts will need replacement? Who will repair it? How can the experience be simple and intuitive? Can the product be reclaimed, refurbished, and resold? If it must be discarded, how can we facilitate its disassembly into easily recyclable components?"

Design for Disassembly is a movement considers the need to disassemble a product for repair, refurbish, or replacement, and seeks to increase the effectiveness of a product during and after its life. Some key goals of DfD include reduction of labor costs, reduction of materal costs, and the opening of new markets. A great example of a large company taking the DfD initiative is Hewlett Packard's Notebook Division.

"Foam blocks were replaced with paper pulp shells, with formed compartments to separate the different components and eliminate additional boxes. The user manuals were replaced by a two-gigabyte SD card, which could be re-used with any SD compatible device. Another notebook design produced for Walmart replaced box packaging with a messenger bag-style computer case."