Clean and green machine: Jake Tyler with vacuum cleaner made from recycled cardboardA British inventor has made the world’s first cardboard vacuum cleaner from the packaging of another model.
Jake Tyler's innovative machine so impressed cleaning giant Vax that it intends to put the model into production.
The 22-year-old an industrial design student at Loughborough University said: ‘I have really high hopes for the product, especially in Asian markets such as Hong Kong and China. It is very cheap to manufacture.
What a card: The cleaner, shown close up, is to be produced by vacuum giant Vax‘I've been given a job at Vax as well so I can see the production through to the end.’
Mr Tyler developed the ‘ev’ model for his final-year degree project.
He was supported by the product design team at Vax's headquarters in Worcestershire, where he worked for a year under the company's student placement scheme.
He said: ‘I got the idea when we were looking at the manufacture of vacuum cleaners and thinking how to cut out as much waste as possible.
‘It is about being environmentally conscious by using cardboard and making it as recyclable as we possibly can.’
The Vax ev is made from corrugated cardboard panels, which come as part of the packaging.
They can be replaced if damaged and cost a 10th of the price of an equivalent plastic panel.
Jake said: ‘When people's vacuum cleaners go wrong they just throw them away, but this can be repaired very easily.
‘The cardboard panels have a flame-retardant coating and are also water repellant.
‘People can personalise their vacuums by drawing pictures on the cardboard.’
source: dailymail
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