Potential Ecodesign Requirements for Textiles and Furniture

Eco-design practice towards sustainable furniture: A Review

“…While DfE tools offer a simpler method, adding quantitative assessments such as carbon footprint report helps to facilitate environmental analysis during the identification of potential environmental impact [17]. The proposed light application of eco-design requirements for furniture could also be utilized in identifying potential environmental impact [5].…”

“…The EU is IOP Publishing doi:10.1088/1755-1315/1108/1/012059 2 developing standards for eco-design requirements for ERP that address material efficiency. If these requirements were to apply to non-energy related products, for example, furniture, eco-design applications can provide significant benefits [5].…”

Clothing labels: Why are they important for sustainable consumer behaviour?

“…There is room for improvement for the existing clothing labeling schemes. For mandatory labels, there is a need for better harmonization of the requirements between countries, 3 and for moving towards extending the labels to include information about the country of origin, chemical substances (restriction on the use of some chemicals), 4 wash/care instructions, 5 environmental performance and material efficiency requirements in terms of durability, recyclability, repairability, reusability, and recyclable content 6 (Bauer et al 2018). An extension of advice about resource efficiency measures such as encouraging reuse and sharing would also be helpful.…”