1. Context
The design phase is identified as crucial in the creation cycle of a product or service, since it is at this stage that the choices (materials, shape, production process, recyclability, packaging, etc.) that will have a greater or lesser impact on the environment are determined.
Eco-design therefore appears to be an approach offering maximum potential for influencing the environmental impacts generated by the design of products, services or production processes.
That's why more and more companies are choosing to implement eco-design approaches, in order to develop products, services and processes that are more respectful of the environment.
Eco-designed products are made to have a reduced environmental impact. They are to be distinguished from other product families that contribute to reducing environmental impact...
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Standards and norms
- ISO Environmental management systems – Guidelines for integrating eco-design - NF EN ISO 14006 - 2020
- ISO Management environnemental : Intégration des aspects environnementaux dans la conception et le développement de produits - ISO/TR 14062 - 2003
- ISO Environmental management: Life cycle assessment – Principles and framework - ISO 14040 - 2006
- ISO Environmental management: Life cycle assessment...
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Code de l'Environnement – Partie règlementaire – Livre V : prévention des pollutions, des risques et des nuisances – Titre IV : déchets, November 2021.
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), (...), Official Journal of the European Union, L 396/1 of 30...
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Agence de la transition écologique – public establishment under the authority of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation
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