Comparing Biomimicry and Cradle to Cradle with Ecodesign: a case study of student design projects

Pauw, I.C. De; Karana, Elvin; Kandachar, Prabhu; Poppelaars, Flora

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.04.077

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“…These are complex communities of living organisms, each possessing unique responses to its surroundings that works in concert with other natural elements (Kopnina and Blewitt 2018). C2C takes nature's inherent diversity as a prototype, similar to biomimicry (de Pauw et al 2014), tailoring product designs to 'fit' within local landscapes and to enhance rather than compete with or deplete surrounding environment. These innovations can range from smog-filtering towers (Braw 2015) to 'green buildings' (Steinemann et al 2017).…”

Section: Key Principles and Certification Of C2c/ce Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This article aims to bridge this gap providing both practical case studies developed by students (and presented in the form of author-edited assignments) and a deeper reflection on theoretical challenges of applying 'ideal' models to real-case scenarios. Some ad hoc school and university level courses were developed to address CE (Webster and Johnson 2009;Andrews 2015) and C2C (Gerber et al 2010;Kopnina 2011Kopnina , 2015Kopnina , 2016cKopnina , 2017de Pauw et al 2014). Ellen MacArthur Foundation (n.d.) has developed a number of helpful educational materials to be used at both school and graduate university levels.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Circular economy and Cradle to Cradle in educational practice

Kopnina

2018

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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This article describes how Circular Economy (CE) and Cradle to Cradle (C2C) can be used in university teaching to address these frameworks' strengths and weaknesses in practice. The advantages of these frameworks for radical change are outlined, including their emphasis on upcycling rather than recycling (downcycling). This article discusses how students apply their understanding of transformative production frameworks to three case studies of products or materials. The student projects evaluating existing products in terms of their circularity value outline a number of practical as well as theoretical challenges. The case studies demonstrate that some products still have a long way to go to fully cycle materials within a closed system. Aside from illustrating the dangers of subversion of circular frameworks to the 'business-as-usual' scenarios, the assignments are instructive in showing how CE/C2C can be successfully taught. This article recommends pedagogical strategies involving both theory of sustainable production and sustainability and practical research into company's operations in order to develop the students' ability to meaningfully engage with CE/C2C models.

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Section: Key Principles and Certification Of C2c/ce Productsmentioning

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Circular economy and Cradle to Cradle in educational practice

Kopnina

2018

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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“…Eco-design is a strategy for the inclusion of environmental attributes in the development of products and in its related processes (Karlsson and Luttropp, 2006;Ramani et al, 2010;Pigosso et al, 2013;Pauw et al, 2014). Eco-design considers both, environmental and economic aspects associated with the life cycle of products and processes (Baumann et al, 2002;van Hemel and Cramer, 2002;Hauschild et al, 2004;Bahmed et al, 2005;Borchardt et al, 2009;Deutz et al, 2013), without compromising other essential criteria such as performance, functionality, quality and costs (van Weenen, 1995;Johansson, 2002).…”

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Ecodesign Practices in a Furniture Industrial Cluster of Southern Brazil: From Incipient Practices to Improvement

Sellitto

Luchese

Bauer

et al. 2017

J. Env. Assmt. Pol. Mgmt.

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Eco-design practices are still incipient in Brazilian furniture industries, although some improvement can be identified in recent years. This paper describes the performance of an industrial furniture cluster located in Southern Brazil regarding such practices. An embedded case study involving four companies -two manufacturers and two supplierswas carried out using in-depth interviews. It enabled to depict particularities of how these companies deal with sustainable aspects of design in their respective business. Critical issues identified as obstacles for eco-design implementation in these industries were: control of both, productive process and product durability; product distribution; rational use of space for transportation and storage. Minor difficulties were identified regarding the lack of renewable energy sources and the scarcity of knowledge dissemination. Such hurdles could provide opportunities and support future eco-design strategy implementation, improving the competitiveness and contributing for the eco-efficiency of the Brazilian furniture industry.

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“…What the eco-efficiency concept can learn from C2C (as presented by e.g. Bjørn and Hauschild (2013)) and other nature-inspired design approaches (de Pauw et al, 2014), as well as the usability of LCA in a C2C process (Bor et al, 2011) have already been assessed and presented. One of the outcomes of such analyses is that C2C products will not necessarily perform well in an LCA.…”

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Closing the loop for aluminum cans: Life Cycle Assessment of progression in Cradle-to-Cradle certification levels

Niero

Negrelli

Hoffmeyer

et al. 2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Despite their different scopes, both the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology and the Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Certified TM Product Standard can support companies in the implementation of circular economy strategies. Considering the case of aluminium cans, the objectives of this paper are twofold: (i) to compare the environmental impact associated with different levels of two C2C certification requirements by using LCA; and (ii) to identify the main challenges and drawbacks in the combined use of LCA and C2C for packaging within the circular economy framework.Twenty different scenarios were developed and compared, according to three C2C certification levels, in terms of % renewable energy and % recycled content. The results show that increasing the recycled content provides more improvements to environmental impacts than increasing renewable energy usage.Furthermore, receiving a higher certification level does not necessarily mean environmental burden reduction in LCA sense.From a methodological point of view, the main challenge for LCA is to address the continuous loop of materials and account for the benefits from recycling in a consistent way. Meanwhile for C2C the challenge is to guarantee a proper translation of the C2C principles into the C2C certification program, avoiding burden shifting and to find a balance between the different certification requirements. Keywords

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Comparing Biomimicry and Cradle to Cradle with Ecodesign: a case study of student design projects

Cited by 52 publications

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Circular economy and Cradle to Cradle in educational practice

Circular economy and Cradle to Cradle in educational practice

Ecodesign Practices in a Furniture Industrial Cluster of Southern Brazil: From Incipient Practices to Improvement

Closing the loop for aluminum cans: Life Cycle Assessment of progression in Cradle-to-Cradle certification levels

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