Product Innovation and Eco-Efficiency Twenty-Two Industry Efforts to Reach the Factor 4

Product Innovation and Eco-Efficiency Twenty-Two Industry Efforts to Reach the Factor 4 / edited by Judith E.M. Klostermann, Arnold Tukker.

Prefaced by Björn Stigson, President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, this book is one of the few that treats this topic by putting representatives of industry at centre stage. The book systematically addresses the drivers, the tools, and sector-specific elements that play...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Klostermann, Judith E.M (Editor), Tukker, Arnold (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
Edition:1st ed. 1998.
Series:Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science, 1
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Environmental management.
Sustainable development.
Management.
Industrial management.
Environmental economics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Issues: driving factors
  • 3 Instruments: the toolbox for product innovation and eco-efficiency
  • 4 Industries: sector-specific developments
  • 5 The challenge
  • 6 The reduction of waste in metal machining
  • 7 Smart cements
  • 8 Coextruded pipe: an ideal product for recycled PVC pipes and fittings
  • 9 Future energy services
  • 10 Novel protein foods
  • 11 Disassembly analysis of consumer products
  • 12 LCA of the utilization processes of spent sulphuric acid
  • 13 Environmental analysis of wooden furniture
  • 14 Application of LCA in environmental management in Statoil
  • 15 The environmental improvement process at Unilever
  • 16 Using LCA in environmental decision-making
  • 17 LCA as a decision-support tool for product optimization
  • 18 Possibilities for sustainable development in the chemical industry
  • 19 Towards eco-efficiency with LCA’s prevention principle: an epistemological foundation of LCA using axioms
  • 20 Product innovation and public involvement
  • 21 Experiences with the application of secondary materials in the building and construction industry
  • 22 Ecodesign for building materials and building construction
  • 23 ‘Apparetour’: national pilot project collection and reprocessing of white and brown goods
  • 24 Ecodesign at Bang & Olufsen
  • 25 Eco-efficiency and sustainability at Philips Sound & Vision
  • 26 Use of recycled PET for soft drink bottles
  • 27 Optimizing packaging: fitness for purpose, together with ecological and economic aspects, must be part of the equation
  • 28 Paper packaging designed for recycling
  • List of contributors.

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