Critical materials from a product design perspective

Peck, David; Kandachar, Prabhu; Tempelman, Erik

doi:10.1016/j.matdes.2014.08.042

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“…Terms such as "eco-design", "green design", "design for the environment" and "sustainable design" have emerged, looking for alternative ways to deliver less damage to the environment and sometimes to wider society in general [3,4]. However, the application of these theories and methods in the development of "less bad consumer products" can have unintended consequences or re-bound effects if not considered from a whole system perspective [5] and result, for example, in the use of scrap, recycled and renewable materials, which cannot easily be recovered, disassembled or reused [6].…”

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A Conceptual Framework for Circular Design

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Design has been recognised in the literature as a catalyst to move away from the traditional model of take-make-dispose to achieve a more restorative, regenerative and circular economy. As such, for a circular economy to thrive, products need to be designed for closed loops, as well as be adapted to generate revenues. This should not only be at the point of purchase, but also during use, and be supported by low-cost return chains and reprocessing structures, as well as effective policy and regulation. To date, most academic and grey literature on the circular economy has focused primarily on the development of new business models, with some of the latter studies addressing design strategies for a circular economy, specifically in the area of resource cycles and design for product life extension. However, these studies primarily consider a limited spectrum of the technical and biological cycles where materials are recovered and restored and nutrients (e.g., materials, energy, water) are regenerated. This provides little guidance or clarity for designers wishing to design for new circular business models in practice. As such, this paper aims to address this gap by systematically analysing previous literature on Design for Sustainability (DfX) (e.g., design for resource conservation, design for slowing resource loops and whole systems design) and links these approaches to the current literature on circular business models. A conceptual framework is developed for circular economy design strategies. From this conceptual framework, recommendations are made to enable designers to fully consider the holistic implications for design within a circular economy.

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“…Even if the term resource criticality has emerged recently in scientific literature, media, and government reports, after analyzing 29 published definitions and descriptions used for critical materials, Peck and colleagues (), in line with other researchers (Chakhmouradian et al. ; Roelich et al.…”

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“…), and, as a result, studies in this field tend to apply a wide range of system boundaries, purposes, and methodologies. For example, Knašytė and colleagues (), Graedel and colleagues (), and Oakdene Hollins Ltd. and Fraunhofer ISI () have attempted to identify critical materials at the national or regional level; Harmsen and colleagues (), Graedel and colleagues (), Goe and Gaustad (), and Roelich and colleagues () have covered particular industry branches or companies; Schneider and colleagues () have attempted to integrate criticality assessments to life cycle assessment models; Peck and colleagues () have aimed to analyze it from a product‐design perspective; and Harper and colleagues () have examined the importance of particular materials only. Recent assessments of resource criticality tend to move away from considering criticality to be solely a function of scarcity given that there are no significant examples of a broad geochemical material scarcity (Roelich et al.…”

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Geostrategic Supply Risk and Economic Importance as Drivers for Implementation of Industrial Ecology Measures in a Nitrogen Fertilizer Production Company

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Kliopova

Hugi

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J of Industrial Ecology

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Summary Among other concerns, safeguarding the supply chains of raw materials is an important task for industrial companies. Therefore, not surprisingly, the number of scientific publications concerning the evaluation of resource criticality has increased in recent years. However, it was noticed that currently published methodologies are too complex to be applied by industrial companies on a daily basis. For this reason, the need to develop a methodology that would allow not only assessing resource criticality, but could also be integrated into widely applied methodological frameworks as an additional driver to improve resource efficiency was identified. Geostrategic supply risk and economic importance were chosen as key indicators to analyze and assess relative resource criticality. The developed methodology was field tested by applying it to a resource‐intensive nitrogen fertilizer production company. Five scenarios for resource efficiency improvements, consisting of cleaner production and industrial symbiosis measures, were investigated. If all the proposed measures were implemented, consumption of natural gas would decrease by 3.552 million cubic meters per year (0.3% of the total consumption). However, not all identified measures contribute to a reduction of the overall criticality of resources for the production company. Nevertheless, the integration of criticality assessments into the widely applied methodologies for development and implementation of resource efficiency innovations is a valuable addition and should be included in the analysis for sustainable innovations and development.

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“…Industrial Symbiosis (IS) IS, eco-industrial networks and sustainable development are different concepts that are closely related to the concept of CE [86][87][88][89]. Moreover, IS and eco-industrial parks are among the essential concepts used in industrial ecology [90].…”

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Transition towards Sustainable Solutions: Product, Service, Technology, and Business Model

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Nowadays, the horse industry can be considered as an important industry in European countries and has a major role in agricultural industry throughout the world. Although today the diversity of the horse-related companies provides new markets and business opportunities, there are also some sustainable issues which needs to be addressed. Therefore, this study contributes to this research gap by reviewing the concept of sustainability and existing approaches to find sustainable solutions for companies. These sustainable approaches can be applied to products, services and technologies as well as business models, such as the product-service-system (PSS), circular economy (CE) and industrial symbiosis (IS). Although there seems to be a growing understanding of sustainable approaches and their role in sustainable development, there is a lack of research at the empirical level regarding the types of sustainability approaches (i.e., technologies, services, products and business models) that evolve in specific industries. The empirical data in this research have been collected from a cross-section of Finnish horse industry operators to determine how willing companies are to exploit approaches to sustainable solutions, as well as what the existing sustainable solutions are in this industry. The response rate of this study is approximately 24 percent, including 139 received valid responses among the sample of 580 operators.

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Critical materials from a product design perspective

Cited by 60 publications

References 11 publications

A Conceptual Framework for Circular Design

A Conceptual Framework for Circular Design

Geostrategic Supply Risk and Economic Importance as Drivers for Implementation of Industrial Ecology Measures in a Nitrogen Fertilizer Production Company

Transition towards Sustainable Solutions: Product, Service, Technology, and Business Model

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