Why eco-design?
Resources are limited, and each product consumes materials, energy and money during its manufacturing process. It is therefore essential to rethink the way we design products. Eco-design means integrating, from the product development phase onwards, the reduction of environmental impacts throughout the product’s life cycle.
What the toolbox offers
The toolbox supports professionals in the plastics sector in their transition towards more responsible practices. It also helps them better understand environmental challenges, practical levers for action and the key concepts of circular design as applied to their products.
Circular Design in Plastics helps you to:
- gain a general understanding of eco-design and its role in the transition to circular economyThe circular economy is a restorative and regenerative economy. By maintaining the value of the products, materials and resources in the economy through smart product design, repurposing and/or shared use of products, it reduces the extraction of natural resources by using resources already present in the economy. practices
- discover tools to assess and improve a product's environmental impact
- clarify your terminology to communicate more effectively with customers, partners, suppliers, etc.
- adopt a continuous improvement process at your own scale
This guide is intended as a shared basis for better understanding: a common frame of reference to help you reflect, structure your projects, communicate more effectively with experts... and above all, take the first steps.
A step-by-step plan to structure your thought process
The toolbox is organised into six complementary themes forming a three-stage pathway:
- laying out the foundations
- learning how to measure
- identifying concrete levers for action
Depending on your needs, you can start with the introduction or go straight to the section that concerns you: materials, recyclingAny recovery operation through which waste, including organic waste, is reprocessed to become substances, materials or products that can be used for their initial function or other functions., life cycle analysis (LCA)LCA is a method of calculating a product’s impact on the environment., etc.
Each theme is accompanied by additional resources designed to help you better understand the content. And when you are ready to go further, the Circular Design in Plastics experts are available to support you.
More information
Visit Circular Design In Plastics (only available in French) to discover the toolbox.
