MEC-E3007 - Product Sustainability, Lecture, 4.9.2024-26.11.2024
Topic outline
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Welcome to the course Product Sustainability (former code AAN-C2007, now MEC-E3007)! During this course we study how to make more sustainable choices when developing a product. The teams will pursue to make a green version of their original product by using different tools and approaches. The final green solutions are presented in a Product Lauch in No 26th.
The sessions will take place at the Design Factory Stage (Puumiehenkuja 5) on Tue 15.15-17.30.
Note: The kick off session heald on Wed Sep 4th 16.20-18. The exception is due to the Aalto Party on Tue Sep 3rd. Teams will be formed at the kick off session and for this reason the participation is necessary.
Lecture Schedule:
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Background material
Completion requirementsDue: Wednesday, 23 August 2023, 4:46 PMelow you will find a range of resources organised by topic.
ONE: General guidance towards product sustainability
Books
- Lewis et al. (2001) Design + Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods
- Papanek, Viktor (1971) - Design for the Real World
Videos
- Design for lifetime
- Design for disassembly and recycling
- Design for durability
- Reducing weight / material efficiency
Links
- Finnish site on eco-design, in Finnish: https://ekosuunnittelu.info
- Danish university working strong with eco-design. Page contains links to their manuals, instructions and more: http://www.ecodesign.dtu.dk
- EU site on eco-design: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/industry/sustainability/ecodesign_en
- UNEP - United Nations Environmental programme - eco-innovation manual http://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/17516
- Ab Stevels, how ecodesign happened in Philips : Adventures in EcoDesign of Electronic Products - at www.repository ...
- Guidance towards circular economy: Workbooks - CIRCit Nord
- Active Disassembly Research (2005). Design for Disassembly Guidelines. Available: click here
Articles
- O'Grady, T., Minunno, R., Chong, H. Y., & Morrison, G. M. (2021). Design for disassembly, deconstruction and resilience: A circular economy index for the built environment. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 175, 105847. Available: click here
- Nickless, E., & Yakovleva, N. (2022). Resourcing Future Generations Requires a New Approach to Material Stewardship. Resources, 11(8), 78. Available: click here
- Rossi,
M., Germani, M., Mandolini, M., Marconi, M., Mengoni, M., &
Morbidoni, A. (2013). Eco-design guidelines and eco-knowledge
integration in product development process. In DS
75-5: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Engineering
Design (ICED13) Design For Harmonies, Vol. 5: Design for X, Design to X,
Seoul, Korea 19-22.08. 2013 (pp. 161-170). Available: click here
- Soh, S. L., Ong, S. K., & Nee, A. Y. C. (2015). Application of design for disassembly from remanufacturing perspective. Procedia CIRP, 26, 577-582. Available: click here
- Luttropp and Lagerstedt, 2006, The Ten Golden Rules https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2005.11.022
- Telenko et al., 2008, principles and guidelines for ecodesign https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2005.11.022
- To choose between ecodesign tools, Bovea et al 2012, a taxonomy of ecodesign tools, may provide some help from the scientific point of view https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.07.012
- To understand the dilemmas you face in choosing your ecodesign strategies, Prendeville et al. 2017, "Uncovering ecodesign dilemmas - a path to business model innovation" http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.11.095
TWO: Materials & substances
- Allanwood & Cullen: Sustainable materials with both eyes open http://www.withbotheyesopen.com/pdftransponder.php?c=100
- Allwood, Ashby, Gutowski, 2011 "Material efficiency: a white paper", in Resources, Conservation, Recycling.
- CESEdupack material SW: https://download.aalto.fi/
- Instructions for uploading: http://www.grantadesign.com/education/support/FAQs/students.htm#Student3
Chemical risks:
- ECHA http://echa.europa.eu/information-on-chemicals
- Chemical Secreteriat (NGO) http://w3.chemsec.org/
- ChemSec Sin List http://www.chemsec.org/what-we-do/sin-list
- EU policies to plastics as a waste: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/plastic_waste.htm
- Companies' black lists https://www.chemsafetypro.com/Topics/Restriction/Overview_of_Restricted_Substances_Lists_of_Big_Multinational_Companies.html
THREE: Product life cycle
Books and links:
- Baumann & Tillman (2004) The Hitch hikers guide to LCA
- Klöpffer & Grahl (2014) A guide to best Life cycle assessment
- Best Available Technologies (BAT) Reference documents (BREF): http://eippcb.jrc.ec.europa.eu/reference/
- Environmental product declarations: http://www.environdec.com/ Â
- Information on several product types
- Grocery bag comparison: The Danish Environmental Protection Agency (2018), https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-73-4.pdf
FOUR: Product type specific info
Textiles:
- http://www.kemi.se/Documents/Publikationer/Trycksaker/Rapporter/Rapport-3-13-textiles.pdf
- http://www.syke.fi/download/FE162011_Risk_management_and_governance_of_chemicals_in_articles_Case_study_textilespdf/ac050a5f-30e3-48d0-a8a4-28c8763459e5/28586
- Sustainability coalition for textiles, footwear industries' sustainability coalition. http://apparelcoalition.org. You can download documents to assess your materials and understand how big brands are claiming to do sustainability assessments.
- REGULATION (EU) No 1007/2011 on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02011R1007-20130701
Electrical and electronic products:
- http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/weee/index_en.htm
- Waste streams, statistics:http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/waste/key-waste-streams/wee