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The term life cycle refers to the major activities in the course of the products life-span from its manufacture, use, and maintenance, to its final disposal, including the raw material acquisition required to manufacture the product. (www.epa.gov)
Source: J. Fiksel, Design for Environment: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development, McGraw-Hill 2009
1. Design for Dematerialization Minimize material throughput as well as the associated energy and resource consumption at every stage of the life cycle. This can be achieved through a variety of techniques such as product life extension, source reduction, process simplification, remanufacturing, use of recycled inputs, or substitution of services for products. (http://www.resilience.osu.edu/Joseph
Fiksel )
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Dematerialization
Dematerialization is often broadly used to characterize the decline over time in weight of the materials used in industrial end products. From an environmental viewpoint, (de)materialization should be defined as the change in the amount of waste generated per unit of industrial products.
- Robert Herman, Siamak A. Ardekani, and Jesse H. Ausubel (phe.rockefeller.edu)
In economics, dematerialization refers to the absolute or relative reduction in the quantity of materials required to serve economic functions in society. Doing more with less.
Removing the need to create a physical product. The energy savings associated with not having to transport that product.
- Jonathan Koomey of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and Stanford (www.gigaom.com )
(phe.rockefeller.edu)
Built from a new building material comprised of recycled paper and plastic.
Green Roofed School in Crteil, France by Agence Nicolas Michelin & Associs
Karton Group Makes Cool and Quirky Furniture Out of Recycled Cardboard
by Jenny Tranter, 06/17/11
Disassembly
Human capital refers to the health, safety, security, and well being of employees, customers, suppliers, and other enterprise stakeholders. (Also important is the preservation of social capital; namely, the institutions, relationships, and norms that underpin human society, including bonds of mutual trust.) Natural capital refers to the natural resources and ecosystem services that make possible all economic activity, indeed all life. Economic capital refers to tangible enterprise assets including facilities and equipment, as well as intellectual property, reputation, and other intangible assets that represent economic value.
Capital protection involves maintaining continuity and productivity for existing capital, while renewal involves restoring, reinvesting, or generating new capital to replace that which has been depleted. Thus renewal may include attracting new talent, revitalizing ecosystems, and building new factories.