Sustainable Product Design: A Review

Authors

  • Omkar Taware
  • Suryakant Kumbhar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37591/tmet.v8i2.507

Keywords:

Carbon credit, green production, life cycle assessment, sustainability

Abstract

With the increasing demand of product it become essential to consider sustainability aspects of product design The integration of sustainability into all aspects of product design cycle provides an opportunity to reduce a product’s negative impact on society, environment and economy. There are three issues on which sustainability works that is society, environment and economy. We must integrate the idea of sustainable design into the process of product design in order to achieve sustainable development of environment, society and economy. The main objective of sustainable product design is to reduce or minimize the use of conventional or non-renewable resources. Hence, this paper gives an overview of the concept of Sustainable Product Design

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Published

2018-09-12

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2018)

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Review Articles

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