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Tag Archives: green manufacturing
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 … Continue reading
EU ESPR is Coming in 2023: Act Now to become more Sustainable. [Podcast]
Renaud and compliance expert Clive Greenwood are back with a warning for importers who sell products in the EU about the impending EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) which is due to come into effect in May 2023. This … Continue reading
How To Comply With The EU Ecodesign Regulation? [Podcast part 2]
This is a crucial listen to anyone currently importing products into the EU! The new EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation is coming soon, meaning that you will be legally obliged to comply with its demands for more sustainable products, … Continue reading
How To Get the Cradle To Cradle Certification for Your New Product?
If you’ve already read our two earlier posts: Minimizing a Product’s ‘Cradle to Grave’ Environmental Impact and Designing New Products With A Cradle To Cradle Cycle In Mind, no doubt you have seen some of the benefits of making more … Continue reading
Why Design Cradle To Cradle Products? [Podcast]
Renaud and Adrian discuss ‘Cradle to Cradle’ product design. Sustainable products are gaining in popularity thanks to consumers becoming more environmentally conscious, climate change being more obvious, and resources becoming scarcer and more expensive. Products that are designed to become … Continue reading
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Designing New Products With A Cradle To Cradle Cycle In Mind
As we described in Minimizing A Product’s ‘Cradle To Grave’ Environmental Impact, businesses have been under pressure to be more efficient in making and distributing their products and to make recycling easier. And we also mentioned that the whole concept … Continue reading
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Minimizing a Product’s ‘Cradle to Grave’ Environmental Impact
What is a product’s Cradle to Grave impact on the environment and how do we reduce ours in the name of becoming more environmentally friendly? We investigate this here…
15 Key Eco Certifications For Green Manufacturers
Today’s consumers are increasingly taking a product’s eco certifications into account when making the decision to purchase products or not. How environmentally-friendly is the product? Does the company care about their carbon footprint? Is modern slavery an issue in the … Continue reading
Bioplastics’ Key Advantages & Disadvantages
As product designers look for more sustainable options to please increasingly environmentally savvy consumers, they are often looking at the advantages of bioplastics, such as lower production CO2 emissions, sustainable raw materials, biodegradability in many cases, and more…
