Life cycle analysis

• 1. PRODUCTS LIFE IN SIX STAGESWHAT WE CAN DO TO PROTECT THE ENVIROMENT.

2. INDEXINTRODUCTION 1STAGE: OBTAINING RAW MATERIAL 2STAGE: MANUFACTURING 3STAGE: TRANSPORTING TO A HOUSE OR BUSSINES 4STAGE: USING AND REHUSING 5STAGE: RECYCLING 6STAGE: DISPOSAL IN A LANDFILL OR BURNING 3. INTRODUCCIONWhen we buy something, we have keep in mind that the raw material of the product is not harmful to the environment because, in these last decades have gone much flora and fauna due to poaching and illegal logging. For example, if you buy fruit other than seasonal, seasonal fruit should be stored and they defile because you need several things: fuel from the truck that transports it, obtaining the resources used to make a store, electricity . Because believe it or not a simple product can leave a lot of pollution. This presentation will describe the life of an everyday product: Bic ballpoint pen 4. 1STAGE: OBTANING RAW MATERIAL Bic pen body is made of polyethylene and the cap is made of polypropylene. The load and tip are made of wolfram or tungsten, a rare metal that costs 38,529.927 US dollars / tone. The ink is composed of hydrochloric acid tannic, gallic and diluted with phenol (iron sulfate) and a blue tint, all these components are in tiny amounts that a mixture in large quantities can become deadly for the living beings 5. 2STAGE: MANUFACTURING The first step is make the body, that it make polyethylene factory in molds, the same process with the cap but with liquid polypropylene. After you do the tip cutting with precise machine, the ball tip must to have a diameter of 1 mm, at the same time the inks container and the ink are doing, later the ink is injected then it centrifuged to remove any air bubble. Next assembled everything an d do a test of quality Finally you do the details as the name of trade. 6. 3STAGE: TRANSPORTING TO A HOUSE OR A BUSSINES In Spain, the Bics Factory of pen is in Tarragona, from there is distributed the pen for many stores an the stores sell to the business and the business sell our. It do many pollution when is transporting. 7. 4STAGE: USE Y REUSE When we have the pen it has the ability to do a line of 4km, you can recharge it, if is possible. When the pen not wok is because there are a air bubble or because the tip is break 8. 5STAGE: RECICLE All of the remains are recyclable, normally is use to do an other pen but it isnt always. Normally when it do a new pen the only work that do is to inject ink. 9. 6STAGE: DISPOSAL IN A LANDFILL OR BURNING There are occasions that the user doesnt recycle the pen and it dispose of in the equivocate container. Hardly never the pen burn 10. AND FINALLY WE HAVE OUR PEN Adiel Roca Flores 2C