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Product Innovation and Eco-Efficiency

Twenty-Two Industry Efforts to Reach the Factor 4

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Judith E. M. Klostermann

    1. Technology and Policy, TNO Centre for Strategy, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands

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  2. Arnold Tukker

    1. Technology and Policy, TNO Centre for Strategy, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science (ECOE, volume 1)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Product Innovation and Eco-efficiency in theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Judith E. M. Klostermann, Arnold Tukker
      Pages 3-4

    3. Issues: driving factors

      • Judith E. M. Klostermann, Arnold Tukker
      Pages 5-11

    4. Instruments: the toolbox for product innovation and eco-efficiency

      • Judith E. M. Klostermann, Arnold Tukker
      Pages 13-23

    5. Industries: sector-specific developments

      • Judith E. M. Klostermann, Arnold Tukker
      Pages 25-27

    6. The challenge

      • Judith E. M. Klostermann, Arnold Tukker
      Pages 29-30

  3. Cases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Issues: driving factors

      1. The reduction of waste in metal machining
        • J. Bongardt
        Pages 35-39
      2. Smart cements
        • J. G. M. De Jong, P. A. Lanser, W. Van Der Loo
        Pages 41-49
      3. Coextruded pipe: an ideal product for recycled PVC pipes and fittings
        • R. L. J. Pots, P. Benjamin
        Pages 51-54
      4. Future energy services
        • L. Groeneveld
        Pages 55-65
      5. Future protein foods
        • E. J. C. Paardekooper, J. Bol
        Pages 67-77

    3. Instruments: the toolbox for Product Innovation and Eco-efficiency

      1. Disassembly analysis of consumer products
        • W. A. Knight
        Pages 81-93
      2. LCA of the utilization processes of spent sulphuric acid
        • Hilmar Brunn, R. Bretz, P. Fankhauser, Th. Spengler, O. Rentz
        Pages 95-101
      3. Environmental analysis of wooden furniture
        • G. R. L. Kamps
        Pages 103-119
      4. Application of LCA in environmental management in Statoil
        • L. Sund
        Pages 121-132
      5. The environmental improvement process in Unilever
        • C. Dutilh
        Pages 133-138
      6. Using LCA in environmental decision-making
        • B. De Smet
        Pages 139-153
      7. LCA as a decision-support tool for product optimization
        • Hilmar Brunn, O. Rentz
        Pages 155-163
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Prefaced by Björn Stigson, President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, this book is one of the few that treats this topic by putting representatives of industry at centre stage. The book systematically addresses the drivers, the tools, and sector-specific elements that play a role in this process. The five chapters in Part I are devoted to a general introduction to eco-efficiency and the related challenges to industry in its implementation. Part II contains 23 case studies, almost all written by industrial experts who tell how they deal with the challenge: what the motivators are, what tools can be used and how they can be implemented, and what are the specific elements in sectors like building, electronics and packaging. These contributions come from multinationals like Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Akzo Nobel, Philips and Ciba-Geigy, as well as small and medium sized enterprises from such sectors as the building and furniture trades.

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  • Technology and Policy, TNO Centre for Strategy, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands

    Judith E. M. Klostermann, Arnold Tukker

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