Tuesday September 7th, 2010: 17:45 – 19:15

The focus is on the application of an integrated preventive environmental strategy to processes and products to increase the overall efficiency by conservation of resources and energy, and progress towards the elimination of emissions and wastes by point source treatment and recycling. 

- Can a life cycle approach help to avoid risks?

- How to measure eco-efficiency of a product?

- Where to find the best performing set of materials?

- Does eco-design always mean design for an easier dismantling in view of recovery and reuse at the end of life ?

- Is Eco-design compatible with higher quality in low-cost production?

- "Made in the EU" : what does it mean?

Chair

• Martin Charter, Centre for Sustainable Design (UK)

Speakers

• Daniel Brissaud, Université Grenoble (France)

• Arnold Tukker, TNO Build Environment and Geosciences (The Netherlands)

• Ramani Narayan, Michigan State University in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science (USA)