Eco-design -- A palette of buzzwords:

Sustainable Product Development

Eco-efficiency Design for Environment
Design for Environment Ecological design
Environmentally Responsible Design
Principles and examples Green Design
Environmental Design
Socially Responsible Design Sustainable Product Design

Environmentally Oriented Design

Life-cycle Design Dematerialisation

Ecologically Oriented Design

Dr. Andrius Plepys, IIIEE Biodesign
Acknowledgments: Dr. Mårten Karlsson, IIIEE/LU, Dr. Conrad Luttorpp, KTH

Design and values

immaterial value functional value

Environmental Products?
functional value immaterial value

Environmentally improved
products? (Eco-products)
Some products are dominated by functionality other by decoration glamour etc.

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Product design and the place of ”eco” Example: eco-design trade-offs for a car

Road Looks
Handling Manufacturing
Cost

Power
Safety

Cargo/Space
Fuel
Effeciency
Environment
Other Stuff
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 WHY ECO-DESIGN?
Costs

Market / sales

Legislation, liability

Company image
…
…

Original: prof. Thomas Lindhgvist, IIIEE/Lund University, Sweden

DFE Principles
Cleaner Material
Cleaner Processes
Less Material
Energy Saving (Use) Eco-
Eco-design examples
Facilitate Recycling
Long Life
Functionality
Efficient Distribution
Facilitate Clean Consumption

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Design for disassembly

Did you know it is eco-
eco-design?
design?
30 seconds 30 minutes

Closure
remains
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 reduction of packaging variety
DfE:
DfE:
mono-
mono-material design for recycling
Dosage principles:

Container principles:

Morphology:

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DfE:
DfE: DfE:
DfE:
modular desing for reduced consumption material recycling and innovation

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DfE:
DfE: solar energy The non-ecological lunch on short-distance flights
…but it depends Necessity, luxury or image branding?
(LCA)

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 ”Cleaner” user phase Coated surfaces for less maintenance
Nano-tech: means for eco-design
Surface coatings --
Shiny or not?

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Energy
Saving
Less
Steam Iron with”Power Management”
Material

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Manually powered toys

Mercury switches
for energy saving?

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Logical solutions
DfE:
DfE: system innovation

It can all be separated ☺

toilets from Ekologen (Sweden)

When we wash our hands the waste water is saved for the next flushing

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DfE examples DfE:

DfE:
Dry toilets natural cotton

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DfE:
DfE:
recycling with product innovation DfE:
DfE:
dosage for rational consumption

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 DfE - multifunctionality
DfE – recycled material

The use of renevable Bi-functional

materials for consumer packaging for
goods motor oil
e.g. telephone

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Service solutions

Car pools when several families own one car together is more and more common

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