Pollution prevention through life-cycle design
Book
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OSTI ID:99355
- Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Product design offers tremendous opportunities for achieving pollution prevention. Through integration of environmental requirements into the earliest stages of product development, adverse environmental impacts can be reduced or eliminated in the manufacture, use, and end-of-life management of a product. The design of a product system can be represented logically as a series of decisions and choices made individually and collectively by design participants. Each decision or choice made by these team members during development and implementation will shape the overall environmental profile of the product system. Existing knowledge and experience guide individual and group design decisions. Both new information and new approaches to synthesizing and evaluating this information are essential to achieve pollution prevention through design. Recognizing that no single design method has universal appeal, this chapter offers guidelines rather than prescriptions. These guidelines are based on the life-cycle design framework developed by the author.
- OSTI ID:
- 99355
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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