Product (Eco)Design and Recycling

Ecodesign or sustainable design, for example, are new headaches for designers, requiring a lot of creative thinking to choose between new sustainable systems and traditional solutions, balancing performance, durability, native resource preservation, energy savings, pollution, and carbon footprint reduction, recycling (and actual reuse), end-cost optimization, and so on. ECD, or environmentally conscious design, aims to reduce a product's negative environmental impacts over its full life cycle. Several options may be considered, each with its own set of environmental benefits and drawbacks. All stages of the life cycle must be examined; one approach may be beneficial to one stage but damaging to another. Eco design opposes the creation of things that are abandoned after only one use and are typically cremated at the end of their useful lives. Eco-design products work hand in hand with developing sustainable products; they answer problems like "How can we find methods that they can become a resource for making new products at the end of their lives?" This is the same as attempting to create products with a more circular lifecycle and, as a result, adhering to the circular economy philosophy. The strategies that can be used to create eco-design products seek to either extend or close the product's lifecycle.