Product Sustainability 2018
Topic outline
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Course material contains
- list of available books (at Design Factory)
- free access books and articles
- eco-label criteria
- regulations
- NGO pages
- production Best Available Technology and reference documents (BAT, BREF)
- Authorities web pages
- CES Edupack material SW & instructions for uploading
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Literature and links on material efficiency.
Allanwood & Cullen: Sustainable materials with both eyes open http://www.withbotheyesopen.com/pdftransponder.php?c=100
Allwood, Ashby, Gutowski, 2011 "Material efficiency: a white paper", in Resources, Conservation, Recycling.You can find article here: doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2010.11.002
CESEdupack material SW:
Instructions for uploading: Â
http://www.grantadesign.com/education/support/FAQs/students.htm#Student3Â
Sustainability coalition for textiles, footwear industries' sustainability coalition. http://apparelcoalition.org You can download documents to assess your materials and understand how big brands are claiming to do sustainability assessments.Â
EU policies to plastics as a waste:Â http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/plastic_waste.htm
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Chemical risks:
ECHA http://echa.europa.eu/information-on-chemicals
Chemical Secreteriat (NGO) http://w3.chemsec.org/
http://www.chemsec.org/what-we-do/sin-list
Books available
Baumann & Tillman (2004) The Hitch hikers guide to LCA
Klöpffer& Grahl (2014) A guide to best Life cycle assessment
Best Available Technologies (BAT) Reference documents (BREF): http://eippcb.jrc.ec.europa.eu/reference/
Environmental product declarations: http://www.environdec.com/Â
Information on several product types
Grocery bag comparison: : The Danish Environmental Protection Agency (2018), https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-73-4.pdfÂ
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Textiles:
http://www.kemi.se/Documents/Publikationer/Trycksaker/Rapporter/Rapport-3-13-textiles.pdf
Electrical and electronic products:
EU
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/weee/index_en.htm
Waste streams, statistics:Â http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/waste/key-waste-streams/weee
Materials and substances (not found in CES Edupack)
Information on chemical risks:
ECHA: https://echa.europa.eu/information-on-chemicals
Textile fibres
REGULATION (EU) No 1007/2011 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 27 September 2011 on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02011R1007-20130701&from=EN
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Books
Lewis et al. (2001) Design + Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods
Papanek, Viktor (1971) - Design for the Real World
Links
- Finnish site on eco-design, in Finnish:Â https://ekosuunnittelu.info
- Danish university working strong with eco-design. Page contains links to their manuals, instructions and more:Â http://www.ecodesign.dtu.dk
- EU site on eco-design: Â http://ec.europa.eu/growth/industry/sustainability/ecodesign_en
- UNEP - United Nations Environmental programme - eco-innovation manual http://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/17516
- Ab Stevels, how ecodesign happened in Philips :Â Adventures in EcoDesign of Electronic Products - at www.repository ...
Articles
- Luttropp and Lagerstedt, 2006, The Ten Golden Rules https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2005.11.022
- Telenko et al., 2008, principles and guidelines for ecodesign https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2005.11.022
- To choose between ecodesign tools, Bovea et al 2012, a taxonomy of ecodesign tools, may provide some help from the scientific point of view https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.07.012
- To understand the dilemmas you face in choosing your ecodesign strategies, Prendeville et al. 2017, "Uncovering ecodesign dilemmas - a path to business model innovation"Â
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Prestudy material for Miko's session 5th Dec.