Pira Consulting
Sustainability
EcoDesign
Many of the environmental, economic and quality impacts of a product are determined during product development through the choice of materials, components, production processes, and performance, use, maintenance and disassembly.
EcoDesign, or Design for Environment, is a structured approach for implementing environmental innovation at the earliest stages of product development to avoid unforseen issues later in the product life cycle.
The principles of eco-design are sometimes summarised as the "6 RE philosophy", namely:
- Re-think the product and its functions: For example, the product can possibly be used more efficiently thereby reducing energy use and other natural resources.
- Re-duce energy and material consumption throughout the product's life cycle.
- Re-place harmful substances with more environmentally friendly alternatives.
- Re-cycle: Select materials that can be recycled, and build the product such that it can be easily disassembled for recycling.
- Re-use: Design the product so parts can be reused.
- Repair: Make the product easy to repair so life of the product is extended.
In each stage of the life cycle of a product there is the potential to lower resource consumption and improve the product's environmental performance.
If you are involved in product design, you need to understand how a product impacts on the environment. In order to incorporate eco-design in your company, let us:
- Assist you in implementing eco-design principles in your company.
- Aid you in applying eco-design principles to a product of yours.
- Develop eco-design guidance and checklists for your product or packaging developers to use in their daily work.
- Provide you with the tools to assist you develop truely sustainable products.
For further information contact
Gary Parker
T +44 1372 802049
M +44 7816 485345
F +44 1372 802249