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A Sustainability Total Management Model Applied to the Product Life Cycle
Author(s)
Anthony David Johnson
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2185/2017.04.009
Affiliation(s)
Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, S.Korea
ABSTRACT
In
this worldwide consumer society the quest for new and more sophisticated
products is ever present often leaving an unsustainable toll on the Earth’s
resources to the point where some commodities are reduced to levels of
scarcity. The growing challenge for product creators is to
provide new products that have the least impact on the environment. The need
for sustainable products is growing annually but often product creators are
either unwilling to engage or are uninformed as to how to engage with the
sustainable creation processes. There is a requirement for a cohesive management strategy that can both inform
industrialists and provide the tools for the implementation of a sustainable
approach to product design and the product life cycle. This paper reviews several publications and builds on previous work (Johnson, Gibson, & Barrans, 2011), enhancing the commonly
used Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and creating a complete management strategy,
which is the Sustainability Enhancement Program (SEP). This incorporates ISO
Standards as an operating platform. Embodied Energy (Ashby, 2012)
is used as a metric by SEP so that the value of energy input within
any product can be measured and reduced in the future product iterations.
KEYWORDS
sustainability, Embodied Energy, ISO 14001, ISO 14040 Environmental Management
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