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  3. Designing products for recyclability

Designing products for recyclability

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Broader

Developing resource efficient methods and technologies
Presentable
Planning-Disordering
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Designing products
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Facilitates

Using environmental labelling
Excellent
Recycling materials
Excellent
Increasing eco-efficiency in business
Presentable
Marketing green products
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Collecting wastes
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Facilitated by

Using life-cycle analysis
Excellent
Sustaining industrial innovation
Presentable
Introducing environmentally sound products
Presentable
Extending producer responsibility
Presentable
Reducing waste
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Problem

Unsustainable energy consumption
Excellent
Waste of resources
Presentable
Short-term planning of product life cycles
Presentable
Retrospective pollution liability
Presentable
Non-destructible containers and packaging
Presentable
Insufficient recycling of materials
Presentable
Dumping of consumer waste products
Presentable
Underutilized wastes
Unpresentable

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(F) Exceptional strategies
Subject
Content quality
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Language
English
1A4N
J3722
DOCID
12037220
D7NID
200585
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/designing-products-recyclability
Last update
Dec 3, 2024