Analysis of key environmental areas in the design and labelling of furniture products: Application of a screening approach based on a literature review of LCA studies

Cordella, Mauro; Hidalgo, Carme

doi:10.1016/j.spc.2016.07.002

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“…At the firm or product level, i.e., the microlevel, decision makers must be able to see the financial implications of making such a transition. This was emphasized as the main motivator for change by the companies participating in the present study and has been corroborated by several authors, e.g., [25,34,59].…”

Section: Discussion Of Lcc Man Resultssupporting

confidence: 87%

Is Prolonging the Lifetime of Passive Durable Products a Low-Hanging Fruit of a Circular Economy? A Multiple Case Study

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Extending the lifetime of passive products, i.e., products that do not consume materials or energy during the use phase, by implementing product-service systems (PSS) has a potential to reduce the environmental impact while being an attractive and straightforward measure for companies to implement. This research assesses the viability of introducing PSS for passive products, by documenting five real product cases of prolonging the lifetime through repair or refurbishment and by quantifying, through life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC), the change in environmental and economic outcome. The environmental impact (measured as global warming potential over the life cycle) was reduced for all cases because extraction and production dominated the impact. This reduction was 45–72% for most cases and mainly influenced by the number of reuses and the relative environmental burden of the components whose lifetime was prolonged. The costs for the company (measured as LCC from the manufacturer’s perspective) decreased too by 8–37%. The main reason that costs reduced less than the environmental impact is that some costs have no equivalent in LCA, e.g., administration and labor costs for services. The decreases in both LCA and LCC results, as well as the willingness of the companies to implement the changes, demonstrate that this measure can be financially attractive for companies to implement and effectively contribute to a circular economy.

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Section: Discussion Of Lcc Man Resultssupporting

confidence: 87%

Is Prolonging the Lifetime of Passive Durable Products a Low-Hanging Fruit of a Circular Economy? A Multiple Case Study

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“…Many approaches have been proposed by scholars for designing sustainable products. LCA (life cycle assessment), which has been applied as a dispensable tool for designing sustainable product, can assess products' environmental impacts during the whole life cycle [11]. In addition, many methods have been applied at the end of life of products, such as design for disassembly [12], design for reuse [13], design for EOL [14], and design for remanufacturing [15].…”

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“…D * j and D − j , which represent the Euclidean distances of indicators from the ideal state and the negative ideal state, respectively, are calculated by formula (10). en, the Euclidean distances are calculated by formula (11):…”

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Study on Evaluating the Sustainability of Innovative Products

Geng

Xing

Zao-jie

et al. 2019

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering

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In the process of product innovations, it is necessary to evaluate the sustainability of innovative products in order to meet the demands of sustainable development. So, the calculation process for evaluating the sustainability of innovative products is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the performances of the innovative products in social, economic, and environmental aspects are calculated based on the concepts proposed in this paper, including social matching degree, economic feasible degree, and environmental improving rate. Then, the vector-cosine method in the three-dimensional space is proposed to calculate the sustainability integrated in the three aspects, which regards innovative products as the vectors. Both the size and direction of the vectors are considered to calculate the sustainability. Finally, a case study of the cloud rail made by BYD Company in China is provided to illustrate the validity of the proposed calculation process.

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“…This issue is underinvestigated in the eco-design research. As observed by Cordella and Hidalgo (2016), there is lack of recommended and satisfactory methods for assessing this type of impact, and probably the companies are not updated about the origin and the type of substances they actually employ in their production processes.…”

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“…Health aspects, when covered, are not sufficiently explored (Bovea and Pérez-Belis, 2012;Cordella and Hidalgo, 2016). Eco-design also identifies the phases of the lifecycle in which environmental impacts occur (Srivastava, 2007).…”

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Ecodesign Practices in a Furniture Industrial Cluster of Southern Brazil: From Incipient Practices to Improvement

Sellitto

Luchese

Bauer

et al. 2017

J. Env. Assmt. Pol. Mgmt.

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Eco-design practices are still incipient in Brazilian furniture industries, although some improvement can be identified in recent years. This paper describes the performance of an industrial furniture cluster located in Southern Brazil regarding such practices. An embedded case study involving four companies -two manufacturers and two supplierswas carried out using in-depth interviews. It enabled to depict particularities of how these companies deal with sustainable aspects of design in their respective business. Critical issues identified as obstacles for eco-design implementation in these industries were: control of both, productive process and product durability; product distribution; rational use of space for transportation and storage. Minor difficulties were identified regarding the lack of renewable energy sources and the scarcity of knowledge dissemination. Such hurdles could provide opportunities and support future eco-design strategy implementation, improving the competitiveness and contributing for the eco-efficiency of the Brazilian furniture industry.

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Analysis of key environmental areas in the design and labelling of furniture products: Application of a screening approach based on a literature review of LCA studies

Cited by 42 publications

References 20 publications

Is Prolonging the Lifetime of Passive Durable Products a Low-Hanging Fruit of a Circular Economy? A Multiple Case Study

Is Prolonging the Lifetime of Passive Durable Products a Low-Hanging Fruit of a Circular Economy? A Multiple Case Study

Study on Evaluating the Sustainability of Innovative Products

Ecodesign Practices in a Furniture Industrial Cluster of Southern Brazil: From Incipient Practices to Improvement

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