39 Strategies For Designing Products With A Lower Environmental Impact

Renaud and Adrian from the team tackle how to design products with less negative environmental impacts and share and comment on the 39  environmental improvement strategies from the IEC 62430:2019 standard for environmentally conscious design.

You’ll find that you won’t need to implement all of these ideas, but let’s say you do a lifecycle assessment and find a few key areas to improve, even a few relevant strategies from this podcast could reduce your environmental footprint by a lot which could be beneficial in terms of reducing costs, pleasing customers, and being a greener business!

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Episode sections

• 00:00 – Greetings and introduction: why are we talking about products’ environmental footprints and sustainability?
• 09:54 – Good product design practices for bringing to market products with a lower environmental impact from IEC 62430:2019.
• 14:09 – 1. Design for material sourcing
• 24:44 – 2. Design for manufacture
• 30:45 – 3. Design for transport and distribution
• 36:58 – 4. Design for use (including installation and maintenance)
• 51:23 – 5. Design for end of life
• 55:11 – Why importers need to start thinking about and planning for more sustainable products

Related content…

• IEC 62430:2019 for ‘Environmentally conscious design’
• What is the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation?
• Designing New Products With A Cradle To Cradle Cycle In Mind
• The Design for X Approach: 12 Common Examples
• How To Do an LCA? (Measuring a Product’s Environmental Impact)
• 23 Ideas For Producing More Eco-Friendly Products

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