Planned obsolescence or planned resource depletion? A sustainable approach

Sátyro, Walter Cardoso; Sacomano, José Benedito; Contador, José Celso; Telles, Renato

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.05.222

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“…The low cost of products is currently a major barrier to designing and using products for longer (Cox, Griffith, Giorgi, & King, ). While evidence suggests that consumers exhibit preferences towards durable goods (Gnanapragasam, Cole, Singh, & Cooper, ), systems of production with planned (Satyro, Sacomano, Contador, & Telles, ) and perceived (Wieser and Tröger, ) obsolescence needs to be overcome . On the one hand designers can lack the expertise to create lighter or longer‐lasting products (Bakker, Wang, Huisman, & Den Hollander, ) whereas on the publics side shifts away from ownership of products to sharing schemes requires public acceptance of access‐based costs, yet consumers share concerns about risks and responsibilities of entering contract‐based agreements (Cherry & Pidgeon, ).…”

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Bridging the climate mitigation gap with economy‐wide material productivity

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Giesekam

Barrett

et al. 2018

J of Industrial Ecology

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Projections of UK greenhouse gas emissions estimate a shortfall in existing and planned climate policies meeting UK climate targets: the UK's mitigation gap. Material and product demand is driving industrial greenhouse gas emissions at a rate greater than carbon intensity improvements in the economy. Evidence shows that products can be produced with fewer carbon intensive inputs and demand for new products can be reduced. The economy-wide contribution of material productivity and lifestyle changes to bridging the UK's mitigation gap is understudied. We integrate an input-output framework with econometric analysis and case study evidence to analyse the potential of material productivity to help the UK bridge its anticipated emissions deficits, and the additional effort required to achieve transformative change aligned with 2 and 1.5 • C temperature targets. We estimate that the emissions savings from material productivity measures are comparable to those from the Government's planned climate policy package. These additional measures could reduce the UK's anticipated emissions deficit up to 73%. The results demonstrate that material productivity deserves greater consideration in climate policy.

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Bridging the climate mitigation gap with economy‐wide material productivity

Scott

Giesekam

Barrett

et al. 2018

J of Industrial Ecology

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“…However, in line with increasing concerns over the environment and consumer preferences, some concerns with respect to 'planned longevity' have arisen (e.g. Swan, 1972;Bulow, 1986;Keeble, 2013;EMF, 2015;Fabian, 2016;Satyro et al, 2018). In light of the metabolic change in the forest-based bioeconomy, particularly in UPM's transformative development trajectory towards a circular economy, an optimal obsolescence management strategy encompassing both possibilities of shortening and extending technology life (UPM, 2017a) was sought in this paper based on the principle of profitable R&D with minimum R&D investment and maximum utilization of digital solutions, as demonstrated in Fig.…”

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Digitalized bioeconomy: Planned obsolescence-driven circular economy enabled by Co-Evolutionary coupling

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Neittaanmäki

2019

Technology in Society

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Driven by digital solutions, the bioeconomy is taking major steps forward in recent years toward achievement of the long-lasting goal of transition from a traditional fossil economy to a bioeconomy-based circular economy.The coupling of digitalization and bioeconomy is leading towards a digitalized bioeconomy that can satisfy the shift in consumers' preferences for eco-consciousness, which in turn induces coupling of up-down stream operation in the value chain.Thus, the co-evolution of the coupling of digitalization and bioeconomy and of upstream and downstream operations is transforming the forest-based bioeconomy into a digital platform industry.Aiming at addressing this transformation, a model was developed that explains above mentioned dynamism and demonstrated its reliability through an empirical analysis focusing on the development trajectory of UPM (forest-based ecosystem leader in Europe and a world pioneer in the circular economy) over the last quarter century, highlighting its efforts towards planned obsolescence-driven circular economy.It was comprehended that with the advancement of digital innovations, UPM has incorporated a self-propagating function that accelerates digital solution. Furthermore, this self-propagating function was triggered by coupling with a downstream leader, Amazon, in the United States.The dynamism in transforming a forest-based bioeconomy into a digital platform industry is thus clarified, and new insights common to all industries in the digital economy are provided.

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“…It was also referred to in academia as "a necessary condition for technological innovation" (Fishman, Gandal and Shy, 1993). Although this design practice, together with Keynesian economics, contributed significantly to the revival of the economy during the 1930s and the economic boom in the 1950s, it has been detrimental to the environment (Satyro et al, 2018). This type of industrial practice is fuelled by the "take-make-dispose" resource consumption pattern, which is characteristic of the linear economic paradigm (EMF, 2013).…”

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Understanding and Supporting Product-Service System Designing : Preliminary Insights and Support for Designing Resource-Efficient and Effective Solutions

Neramballi

2020

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Licentiate Thesis

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Cover conceptualized and designed by Shwetha VC and Abhijna Neramballi. The image of the brain represents the cognitive aspect of the research. While, the blue icons placed left of the brain represent the cognitive space of product design, the orange icons placed to the right of the brain represent the cognitive space of service design. The combination of the two cognitive spaces represents the cognitive space of product-service system design. The green icons of a magnifying glass and a compass arranged at the top of the brain represent descriptive and prescriptive dimensions of this research, respectively. The green icon of the hand with the sapling represents the practical implications of this research in terms of enhanced environmental performance of industrial activities.

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Planned obsolescence or planned resource depletion? A sustainable approach

Cited by 56 publications

References 42 publications

Bridging the climate mitigation gap with economy‐wide material productivity

Bridging the climate mitigation gap with economy‐wide material productivity

Digitalized bioeconomy: Planned obsolescence-driven circular economy enabled by Co-Evolutionary coupling

Understanding and Supporting Product-Service System Designing : Preliminary Insights and Support for Designing Resource-Efficient and Effective Solutions

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