GG294 Cleaner Product Design: an Introduction to Cleaner Design

First published September 2001

Cleaner design is the design of a product or service to minimise the environmental impacts over its entire lifetime while delivering what the customer wants. Cleaner design involves identifying how a product gives rise to environmental impacts during its life-cycle and then investigating how these impacts can be reduced through design. A product's environmental impacts can be reduced by addressing ten key environmental considerations covering each stage of its life-cycle (raw materials, manufacture, use and end-of-life). This Good Practice Guide explains what cleaner design is, the benefits of doing cleaner design and what it involves. It describes the four elements of the cleaner design cycle (researching the product, identifying cleaner design priorities, designing the cleaner product and design review) and how these can be integrated into the traditional design process.

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