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Andréa Franco Pereira PhD Student Université de Technologie de Compiègne Pierre-Henri Dejean Université de Technologie de Compiègne Design and environment: taking into account the interactions between the social actors. The case of domestic packaging This text discusses the problem of packaging waste through an analysis of the proposed solutions for reducing waste volume, in response to the European Directive 94/62 EC. We maintain that the difficulty of obtaining optimal solutions in practice is a direct consequence of the complexity of waste collection and sorting process. In the case study of plastics bottles (PET and PVC), we have observed that packaging design occupies a fundamental role in the recycling and hinders the adequacy of the result wished. Therefore, it is essential to take in account the chain of complexity of interactions in the design process. ← back | download 120 Kb pg411.rtf