| Sustainable
Product Design
The growing attention to issues of design is
a natural outcome of decades of work on cleaner production and
eco-efficient industrial systems. It represents the next step
in a progressive widening of the horizons of pollution prevention;
a widening which has gone from a focus on production processes
(cleaner production), to products (ecodesign), then to product-systems
(incorporating transport logistics, end-of life collection and
component reuse or materials recycling) and to sustainable innovation
(design for sustainability).
UNEP promotes design
for sustainability and other product related interventions
such as product service systems to implement
more sustainable consumption and production patterns. See also
Life Cycle Thinking and Eco-Labelling.
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