2015 Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge Now Open for Entries

Posted on September 16, 2015

The 2015 Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge is now open for entries. The goal of the challenge is to eliminate the concept of “waste.”Open to design professionals and students, participants must design products made with materials that can return safely to industry or nature at the end of its usefulness. Participants are required to complete a two-hour, free on-line Cradle to Cradle Product Design program that provides strategies, tools, and examples of the Cradle to Cradle design principles.

The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2015. Winners to be announced in January 2016.

For more details and submission form, visit: c2ccertified.org.

Previous winner of Best Professional Design: PURE|IF|HIDE (source).

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