A Research of Environmentally Friendly Method for Reducing the Contamination from the Umbrella Bag in Rainy Season

The umbrella is one of the indispensable household items, and most umbrellas have additional umbrella bags which are easy to be lose, deriving an environmental problem with disposable plastic covers. Environmental protection has been advocated in recent years. In order to improve this problem, the analytical hierarchy process was used to find the most suitable product form. The method of cross impact analysis was applied to integrate these conditions to achieve the product which was not only environmental friendly but also not wasteful. The study found that users preferred the bag-shaped umbrella cover, and tended to the small and convenient storage folding umbrella mainly. They hoped the umbrella bag and the umbrella could be linked without separation. According to the results of the study, the redesigned storage of umbrella bag was used more smoothly and convenient, and the redesigned storage of umbrella bag can effectively solve the ease losing problem to pack the umbrella bag with the umbrella.