Development of a Formalized Toolset for Footwear Product
Environmental considerations are now part of the consumer behaviour influencing their purchases. The only way to get information on the environmental impact of an article is to go through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). In some European countries, it is also included in legislation. Environmental impact of some articles has to be labelled indicating for example the carbon footprint.Purchasing product with a lower environmental impact is one way leading to sustainable consumption.Footwear and leather-goods as all products causes environmental impacts throughout their lifespan (from raw materials to end of life). Impacts are wide-ranging and include global warming, acidification, smog, ozone layer depletion, toxicity, water and energy consumption, depletion of mineral and fossil fuels....There are a number of barriers to effectively providing information to consumers and linking information to action. These barriers are related to the growing volume and complexity of environmental information today, consumer scepticism vis-a-vis the credibility of most information source.Eco-design through Life Cycle Analysis is the methodology that quantifies the impact of an article throughout its lifespan. The eco-design toolset developed gives the opportunity to deeply understand the signification of Life Cycle Analysis and Environmental Impacts and to quantify the environmental impacts of a model in order to check that it is really environmentally friendly. In order to go further up to eco-design, the toolset provides results showing impacts related to transportation, to material production, to the footwear industry itself and to the end-of-life of the article. Demonstration and results will be proposed.
footwear Life Cycle Analysis Life Cycle Assessment Environmental Impact footwear
Thierry PONCET Regis LETY
CTC, 4, rue Hermann Frenkel, 69367 Lyon Cedex 07, France
国际会议
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2009-10-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）