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Eco Compromise

Environment ambitions making it into daily routines

Implications - Consumers want to be more environmentally sensitive, yet they often get too swept up in their daily routines to notice. Since consumers want to be green, innovations that help bring awareness back to their eco footprints at times when they may be distracted, such as in the shower, are hot in demand.
Trend Themes
1. Chromotherapy Integration in Water Fixtures - Interior product designers are integrating chromotherapy, or light therapy, into water fixtures like shower heads and faucets, helping to relieve consumers' stress and infuse a spa-like quality into their homes.
2. Awareness-based Eco-friendly Designs - Innovative designs, such as segmented joint water taps, non-plug sinks, and appliance-toilet hybrids are attempting to raise consumer awareness and bring eco-conscious decision making to their routine decisions.
3. Water-saving Technologies - Water-saving shower heads and systems, water consumption tracking devices, and incinerating waterless toilets are all part of a trend in the home appliance industry to utilize new technologies that decrease water usage/eliminate water waste.
Industry Implications
1. Home Appliances - As the trend towards eco-consciousness continues, the home appliance industry is responding by creating innovative designs that allow for consumers to make eco-friendly decisions effortlessly.
2. Interior Design - As more and more consumers use their homes as sanctuaries and are adopting holistic principles, interior designers are integrating nature-based and wellness-centered elements into their designs.
3. Water Conservation - In the face of a growing water crisis in many regions, the drive towards water conservation and sustainability is becoming a hotbed of innovation and investment from various industries.
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play_circle_filled Water-Recycling Shower
Water-Recycling Shower
Quench Enables Guilt-Free Shower Indulgence
Trend Hunter has featured stories about showers that kick you out or remind you to conserve water. So how about an environmentally sustainable water conservation shower that allows you to indulge as long… MORE
Showers Kicks You Out For Wasting Water
Showers Kicks You Out For Wasting Water
Eco Drop Shower
Designer Tommaso Colia has an eco-friendly shower design that will force you to get out when you take too long and waste much water. The eco_drop shower features beautiful concentric circles that will… MORE
Light Show & Water Conservation
Light Show & Water Conservation
Sandwich Chromotherapy Shower
Get this! Showerheads have gone totally hi-tech. This Sandwich Chromotherapy head is only 4mm thick, but it has 96 LED elements around the shower head under electronic control to give a spectrum of therapeutic… MORE
Designs to Raise Eco Awareness
Designs to Raise Eco Awareness
Plugless Sink
No matter how often environmentalists preach about saving water, people seem to find it hard not to leave their faucets running. That is why we need proactive designs that remind us how much water we are… MORE
Water Conservation Gadgets
Water Conservation Gadgets
Aperture Shower Head
If you're the type of person that likes to spend ages in the shower, you definitely need this device to keep your water consumption in check. The Aperture shower head keeps track of the volume of water… MORE
Toilet Lid Sinks
Toilet Lid Sinks
Wash Up With Toilet Water
Now that you are totally disgusted, let me make clear how this ingenious water saving idea works. When you flush the toilet, clean water held in the reservoir tank replaces the water in the toilet basin,… MORE
Making Every Drop Count
Making Every Drop Count
DROP Shower Head by Giulio Iacchetti
Looking like a leaky blue balloon, or a big drop of water, Giulio Iacchetti's "Drop" shower head for iB Rubinetterie, improves water delivery and because it's made of silicon, it doesn't allow for the… MORE
Conservation Innovation
Conservation Innovation
Happy Tap
Designer Julia Treutiger has come up with an eco-friendly shower tap design that reminds you to conserve water. Happy Tap features segmented joints that break apart providing a visual timer as they slowly… MORE
Incinerating Waterless Toilets
Incinerating Waterless Toilets
The EcoJohn Senior
The EcoJohn Senior doesn’t use water so it not only saves this precious resource but also reduces waste going into the environment. It looks and works like ordinary toilets except the waste is taken… MORE