Application of eco-design and life cycle assessment standards for environmental impact reduction of an industrial product

Navajas León, Alberto; Uriarte Elizaga, Leire; Gandía Pascual, Luis

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Application of eco-design and life cycle assessment standards for environmental impact reduction of an industrial product

dc.contributor.author	Navajas León, Alberto
dc.contributor.author	Uriarte Elizaga, Leire
dc.contributor.author	Gandía Pascual, Luis
dc.contributor.department	Kimika Aplikatua	eu
dc.contributor.department	Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics - INAMAT2	en
dc.contributor.department	Química Aplicada	es_ES
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-02T07:57:59Z
dc.date.available	2018-10-02T07:57:59Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.description.abstract	Eco-design is included within the framework of the standard for “Environmental management systems—Guidelines for incorporating Eco-design” (ISO 14006:2011). Eco-design process, as defined in standard, has six steps: (i) Specify product functions; (ii) Environmental assessment of products; (iii) Strategies of improvement; (iv) Environmental objectives; (v) Product specification; and (vi) Technical solutions. Step (ii), determination of the stage or process of the product life cycle that has the highest environmental impact; this is perhaps the most controversial step because the standard does not specify which tool should be used. This lack of specification has generated some distrust with regard to eco-design, hindering its development. In order to make a trustworthy eco-design, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) should be applied as a tool for environmental impact quantification. The main objective of this work is to apply standardised eco-design methodology for the reduction of the environmental impact of an industrial product in Spain using LCA as a tool for the environmental product assessment. LCA standardised process (ISO 14040,14044:2006) is included in the eco-design process. A glass container intended for cough syrup delivery has been selected as an industrial product to be eco-designed. Following the methodology described, the overall normalised impact decreased 35.1% when a PET container substituted a glass container. Environmental impacts have been reduced following standardised eco-design and LCA methodologies, serving as an example to industry and administration regarding how to eco-design with the confidence of obtaining reliable results	en
dc.format.extent	16 p.
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dc.identifier.doi	10.3390/su9101724
dc.identifier.issn	2071-1050 (Electronic)
dc.identifier.uri	https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/30879
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	MDPI	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Sustainability, 2017, 9, 1724	en
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://doi.org/10.3390/su9101724
dc.rights	© 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.	en
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dc.rights.accessRights	Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia	es
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	industrial ecology	en
dc.subject	Life cycle assessment	en
dc.subject	Eco-design	en
dc.subject	ISO 14006:2011	en
dc.title	Application of eco-design and life cycle assessment standards for environmental impact reduction of an industrial product	en
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