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This paper presents a set of Life Cycle Design (LCD) guidelines to operatively support fashion companies to design
low-environmental impact cloth. The LCD guidelines for environmentally sustainable clothing care systems has
been developed with the following process adopted since several years in company/organization consultancy by the
LeNSlab of Politecnico di Milano: desk research of the fashion system and its environmental impacts and sustainable
best practices analysis; identification of the environmental design strategy priorities; definition of cloth-specific
guidelines. i.e. a process of specifying the general LCD strategies: material minimization, energy minimization,
non-toxic harmful resources selection, renewable and biocompatible resources selection, product life optimization,
material life extension, design for disassembly; tool development both as a handbook and a digital tool. The result is
both an open access handbook and a digital tool of LCD clothing care guidelines and checklist to support and orientate
the future designers and companies to an environmentally sustainable design of clothing for fashion.
Authors: Diana Giannone, Carlo Vezzoli, Giovanni Maria Conti
The paper describes the state of progress of the LIFE The Tough Get Going (LIFE TTGG) project (funded by the
European Union). The authors aim to improve the entire life cycle efficiency of European Protected Designation
of Origin (PDO) cheeses by designing and developing software, that will work as Environmental Decision Support
System for the environmental footprint assessment (in compliance with PEF methodology promoted by European
Commission) and its reduction. The software has been calibrating and validating on the companies of the Grana
Padano and Comté cheese supply chains (100 farms, 34 dairies, and 19 packers).
In this article, the environmental impact of 10g dry matter of Grana Padano PDO cheese was evaluated,
through 3 different impact categories: Climate Change, Acidification, and Mineral Fossil & Ren Resource Depletion.
Two emission mitigation scenarios were considered: reduction of energy consumption in the dairy processing
phase and environmental packaging optimization.
Authors: Jacopo Famiglietti, Pieter R.
This study investigates how a comic about the anti-apartheid activist, Florrie Daniels, may be used to de-marginalise
the Westbury community. Further, I propose the possible extension of this method to other communities and argue
that marginalisation can be addressed with the distribution of a community’s positive heritage. Comics are the most
accessible medium for the propagation of education; by exploiting their innate ability to convey narratives across
multiple physical and intellectual barriers, sustainable community resilience and upliftment may be achieved.
Author: Jean Bollweg
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Ocean plastics is threatening marine life and entering the food chain. Single-use packaging (SUP) represents a major
share of ocean plastics, thus intervention is necessary. This paper explores Product-Service Systems (PSS) business
models to replace SUP with reusable packaging (RP). Literature shows that RP offers environmental advantages over
SUP. However, a classification system of RP business models is missing. This paper aims to fill this gap. Case studies
of RP business models are analyzed. A theory building approach led to developing a classification system and clustering
case studies in archetypal models. Then it’s tested with 12 design students to validate it as a strategic design
tool. The outcome is classification system and 15 archetypal models of RP systems, that provides an overview of RP
solutions and is usable as a strategic design tool. The tool can be used by companies and designers to identify business
opportunities and aid in shifting business models from SUP to RP systems.
Authors: Noha Monsour, Fabrizio Ceschin, David Harrison, Yuan Long