| Publisher | Business for Social Responsibility | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | HTML | Date added | 01 Jan 2003 |
| Topics | Green IT | ||
| Downloads | 27 | ||
Green product design, also known as design for environment (DfE), design for eco-efficiency or sustainable product design, is a proactive business approach to addressing environmental considerations in the earliest stages of the product development process in order to minimize negative environmental impacts throughout the product?s life cycle. Implementing green product design can provide a number of benefits to a company both through focusing on resource efficiencies which, in turn, can reduce costs and often shorten production time and through bringing diverse functional groups to the design table, thereby driving product and process innovation. Green product design/design for environment requires a team approach to product development to ensure that each phase of the process, - from needs analysis through conceptual design, physical and functional attribute trade-offs, materials selection, process planning, production, use and service, marketing, distribution, and final disposition - is considered concurrently.
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