Eco-modulation as a driver for eco-design: A dynamic view of the French collective EPR scheme

Micheaux, Helen; Aggeri, Franck

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125714

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“…In addition, a successful transition to a circular economy also requires that the end-customer can easily assess the environmental improvement of one product over another [22]. The use of an endpoint LCIA leads to environmental impact results in a single, dimensionless value without the need for the end-customer to get confused with different impact categories that are complex to explain in a simple manner.…”

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“…This methodology was applied to the eco-design of new red wines, reducing their environmental impact. Micheaux and Aggeri [22] stressed the need to encourage producers to implement eco-design. To this end, they proposed an incentive scheme (eco-modulation) that applies modular rates to products according to their level of eco-design.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Digital Eco-Design and Life Cycle Assessment—Key Elements in a Circular Economy: A Case Study of a Conventional Desk

Cámara¹,

Santamaría²,

Adán³

et al. 2021

Applied Sciences

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In recent times, there has been an indisputable need to move towards a more sustainable economy, known as a circular economy, which is basically aimed at reducing the consumption of newly extracted raw materials to manufacture products, and thus, reduces waste generation by recycling products beyond their useful life to ultimately close the economic flow of the product. For the economy generated by products to close the circle, it is essential to tackle the problem at the source, that is, the process to achieve the desired product should be conducted by designing the product with environmental criteria (eco-design) and analysing its life cycle from the extraction process to the point when it ends its useful life (LCA). This article presents an ECO + LCA methodology that provides designers with an easy way of visualising the effect of their design decisions on the final environmental impact of the product. This methodology was tested on a case study of a conventional desk, with four alternative scenarios presented and an assessment of their final impact with a cradle-to-grave perspective. The final design obtained reduces the environmental impact by more than 30% and reduces costs by more than 11%.

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Section: Conceptual Backgroundmentioning

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Digital Eco-Design and Life Cycle Assessment—Key Elements in a Circular Economy: A Case Study of a Conventional Desk

Cámara¹,

Santamaría²,

Adán³

et al. 2021

Applied Sciences

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“…However, cost efficiency does not always relate to resource efficiency and thus there is still significant potential for advancing to higher utilisation of resources within the EPR schemes. Potentially, additional measures would be required to improve the material efficiency of EPR, such as the introduction of fee adjustments in the system according to resource efficiency operations (Micheaux and Aggeri 2021).…”

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Interactions of governmental policies and business models for a circular economy: A systematic literature review

Wasserbaur

Sakao

Milios

2022

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…The eco-design concept has been widely incorporated into sectors of the economy in which products have a short life cycle and their materials can cause damage to the environment and human health, as is the case of the EEE sector (Micheaux & Aggeri, 2021). Furthermore, the design of EEE is among the most complex, with up to 69 elements from the periodic table, using precious metals (gold, silver, copper, platinum, palladium, ruthenium, rhodium, iridium and osmium), critical materials (cobalt, palladium, indium, germanium, bismuth and antimony) and non-critical materials (aluminum and iron).…”

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“…The strategic application of eco-design goes beyond the primary goal of identifying, assessing and mitigating environmental impacts to incorporate circular economy principles. These include actions to: use recycled, secondary and more ecological materials; employ the lowest feasible number of components and plastics; improve the energy efficiency of materials and products; prolong the life of products; make it possible for products to be repaired; adapt products to be dismantled and recycled; remove hazardous and polluting materials from products; and design cleaner and more sustainable production, distribution and consumption processes (Gu et al, 2017;Kapuran, 2018;Forti et al, 2020;Micheaux & Aggeri, 2021;European Commission, 2021b;Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2021). The European Union, for example, has adopted directives since 2005 that establish rules for the eco-design of energyconsuming products, among which are several EEE.…”

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Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE): global and contemporary challenge to production chains and the urban environment

Franz

Silva

2022

Gest. Prod.

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In recent years, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) has grown three times faster than the world's population and 13% more than the world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Only 17.4% of this waste is properly treated and uncertain disposal poses risks to the environment and human health. The objective of this study is to present an alignment with regard to the generation, management and legislation of WEEE and its interface with eco-design, cleaner production and reverse logistics. The methodology uses a qualitative approach based on bibliographic and documentary research aligned with the Prisma protocol. The results indicate that industrialization and higher income levels of the population in increasing urbanization have led to an increase in the consumption of electrical and electronic equipment, which, together with the short life cycles of this equipment, recycling difficulties and physical and legal infrastructure, has generated an exponential increase in WEEE. In this scenario, the precepts of the circular economy emerge as a solution to this global problem.

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Eco-modulation as a driver for eco-design: A dynamic view of the French collective EPR scheme

Cited by 33 publications

References 31 publications

Digital Eco-Design and Life Cycle Assessment—Key Elements in a Circular Economy: A Case Study of a Conventional Desk

Digital Eco-Design and Life Cycle Assessment—Key Elements in a Circular Economy: A Case Study of a Conventional Desk

Interactions of governmental policies and business models for a circular economy: A systematic literature review

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE): global and contemporary challenge to production chains and the urban environment

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