SYSTEM ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

SYSTEM ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY GUIDELINES

SYSTEM LIFE OPTIMISATION

Complement products or infrastructures with services for maintenance, repair, substitution, etc., delivered via human or digital means (e.g., remote trouble shooting services), included in the purchase price. Leased flooring – Interface flooring system | Aeron chair long warranty – Herman Miller | Carpet tiles leasing – Tarkett | Pay Per Page Green – Ricoh | Furniture as a service – Gispen | Virtual office Service System – YoRoom | Jeans with repair service – Nudie jeans
Complement products or infrastructures with services for technological upgrades, delivered via human or digital means (e.g., software / firmware updates or instructions for self-managed upgrades), included in the purchase price. Database updating washing machine – Mìele | Enable users for ergonomic needs – BMA
Complement products or infrastructures with services for aesthetical / cultural upgrades, delivered via human or digital means (e.g., digital interface refreshes or style adaptations), included in the purchase price. After sales furniture service – Wilkhahn
Complement products or infrastructures with services enabling their reconfiguration, adaptation and flexibility (e.g., for changing context or location), supported by human or digital means where appropriate. Take back service – Rype Office | Living furniture leasing – Lyght | Digital-virtual fencing solution – Vence
Complement products or infrastructures with all-inclusive take-back services aimed at re-use or re-manufacturing, delivered via human and digital means (e.g., digital tracking / incentive and communication channels) where appropriate. Re-usable photocopiers – Xerox | Carpet tiles leasing – Tarkett
Offer services for the shared use of ownerless products or infrastructures with pay-per-unit, where appropriate facilitated by digital platforms / services for customers (e.g., booking, access control, and usage optimization). Free float bike sharing – RideMovi | Virtual office service system – YoRoom; Workplace sharing – Regus | eGo, Brescia, Italy | E-bike and scooter sharing service – Lime
Offer services for the shared ownership (i.e., collective purchase) of products or infrastructures, where appropriate facilitated by digital platforms (e.g., for group coordination, identity verification, and usage management). Free float bike sharing – RideMovi
Offer services for the sharing and/or exchange of products, facilitated by digital platform services where appropriate. Neighbor-to-neighbor goods sharing platform – Peerby | Workplace sharing – Regus | Shopping without any payment – Freitag
Offer either physical infrastructure or digital platform services for product reuse or second-hand sales (e.g., collection points, product cleaning or online marketplace for used products). Secondhand furniture renting – KAIYO

TRANSPORTATION/DISTRIBUTION REDUCTION

Complement the product or infrastructure with remote services or digital channels that provide support and guidance throughout the lifecycle (e.g., purchase, maintenance, repair, upgrade), included in the purchase price. Global learning community for creators – Skillshare | Repair & WornWear services – Patagonia
The producer/provider creates partnerships with locally based service providers offering all-inclusive maintenance, repair, upgrade, end-of-life collection/valorization, etc., managed or coordinated via human or digital means (e.g., digital platform services).
The producer/provider creates partnerships with locally-based reputable suppliers of resources (material and energy) for the product or infrastructure pre-production, production and care. Local manufacturing of global furniture design – Open Desk | Producer to Customer business model – Arknit
The developer/designer creates partnerships with product/infrastructure manufacturers for local production and delivery, where appropriate facilitated by digital means. (e.g., digital files/instructions sent to decentralized manufacturers network) Assembly furniture at home model – Ikea
Complement the product or infrastructure with services for on-site assembly delivered via human support or digital means (e.g., digital instructions), included in the purchase price. Unpackaged products “on tap” – Negozio Leggero
The producer/provider creates partnerships with retailers and other stakeholders to reduce/avoid packaging (tertiary, secondary or primary).
The producer/provider creates partnerships (e.g., with component suppliers and manufacturers) to reduce or avoid transportation/packaging of semi-finished products.
Complement the products or semi-finished products with service for their optimized distribution (facilitated by digital means where appropriate), included in the purchase price. Unpackaged products “on tap” – Negozio Leggero
Offer products with reusable/returnable packaging, managed via human or digital means where applicable, e.g., tracking, scheduling. Package-as-a-Service – LivingPackets
Offer digitally remote support and status monitoring of activities and interventions carried out on-site by the user, e.g., maintenance, repair, upgrade, end-of-life collection/valorization.
The producer/provider creates partnerships for optimized multi-modal transportation solutions facilitated by digital platforms where appropriate.

RESOURCE REDUCTION

Complement the supply of resources/semi-finished products/consumables related to the product or infrastructure system with services for their optimal use (facilitated by digital means where appropriate), included in the purchase price. Lubricants as a service – Klüber
Offer access to products or infrastructures (enabling platform; facilitated by digital means where appropriate) through payment based on the unit of satisfaction. Domestic Biogas – Biogas Sector | eGo, Brescia, Italy | Pay per wash – Winterhalter commercial dishwashing
Offer access to products or infrastructures (enabling platform; facilitated by digital means where appropriate) through payment based on a fixed fee per a given period of time. Ownerless vehicle use in fixed monthly sum scheme – Riversimple | E–vehicle sharing – Zity
Offer full-service (final result; facilitated by digital means where appropriate) to client/final user through payment based on the unit of satisfaction. Shared mobility platform – DIDI
Provide resource saving technologies and practices to upgrade equipment where the investment is financed through subsequent resource savings.
Offer collective use of products or infrastructures, coordinated and optimized through digital platforms where appropriate. Collective transportation electric minibus – Tecnobus | Shared power banks – Jiedian | Car rental without agency – Getaround
Outsource and/or offer activities when higher specialisation and technological efficiency of products or infrastructures are available. Cleaning cloth rental service – Mewa
Create partnerships to use/integrate existing products or infrastructures. Peer-to-peer EV charger sharing system – Joosup
Outsource activities when higher scale economies are feasible.
Complement the product or infrastructure offer with services designed for their adaptation in the context of use (facilitated by digital means where appropriate) aimed at resource optimization, included in the purchase price. smart cleaning with energy-optimised control – Roborock
Complement product or infrastructure with services designed for their adaptation to use in variations of resource requirements, included in the purchase price.
Offer products/semi-finished products based on availability.
Offer products/semi-finished products on predetermined demand (facilitated by digital means where appropriate) aimed at avoiding unsold inventory and/or surplus production.

WASTE MINIMISATION/VALORISATION

Complement products or infrastructures with take-back services aimed at recycling (facilitated by digital means where appropriate), included in the purchase price. Re-usable photocopiers – XEROX | ‘Cyclon’ shoe subscription – On running
Complement products or infrastructures with take-back services aimed at (low-impact) energy recovery (facilitated by digital means where appropriate), included in the purchase price.
Complement products with take-back services aimed at composting (facilitated by digital means, e.g., digital guide on correct streams, locations and timing, where appropriate), included in the purchase price.
Create local partnerships aimed at symbiotic/cascade approach for recycling/composting of disposed products into others with lower requirements within other sectors. Open project to recycle plastics – Precious plastics | Eileen Fisher – Renew program

RESOURCES CONSERVATION/BIOCOMPATIBILITY

Engage energy suppliers offering renewable energy or renewable energy systems (eventually locally installed) for the functioning of the various phases of the product-service system. Services for decentralised energy systems – Qurrent
Engage a material supplier to use renewable and bio-degradable materials. Regeneration project – Ooobject | Solidarity purchase group – Lambrate GAS
Create partnerships that enable/increase the use of local recycled materials from disposed products of other sectors.
Clothing with regenerated fibres – Rifo’ Lab
Complement products or infrastructures with digital–enabled resource transparency, verification, and control services to address the use of biocompatible/renewable resources (e.g., selectable eco-materials / energy options, dashboard for impact / compliance information), included in the purchase price.

TOXICITY REDUCTION

Create partnerships with recyclers or other producers to reuse or recycle toxic/harmful substances.
Complement products or infrastructures or semi-finished products with services that minimise/treat toxic or harmful emissions they cause in pre-production, production and use stages, included in the purchase price. Lubricants as a service – Klüber | Integrated informative labels – Zyosh
Complement toxic or harmful substances or semi-finished products with end-of-life treatments, included in the purchase price. Closed-loop solvent management system – Safechem
Offer toxic management services to stakeholders of the product value chain, through payment based on the unit of satisfaction. Providing chemical management services – PPG
Complement toxic or harmful substances or semi-finished products with customer/technician training and guide services delivered via human or digital means (e.g., App or AR maintenance guides), included in the purchase price.

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SCORE! – Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges

2005-2008

Coordinator of the design area for the international research, funded by the European Union, 6° Framework program.

Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) is key policy priority world-wide. In our view, sustainable consumption and production structures can only be realized if experts that understand business development, (sustainable) solution design, consumer behavior and effectiveness of (policy) instruments work together in shaping them. Furthermore, this should be linked with the experiences of actors (industry, consumer groups, ecolabelling organizations) in real-life consumption areas.

Since in the EU a network with these characteristics is absent, this project sets up a Co-ordination action on SCP, emphasizing “user awareness” for sustainable consumption, involving key expertise covering all relevant steps of the value chain in the priority consumption domain s Mobility, Agro-Food, and Energy/electronics. These domains contribute to over 70% of the life cycle impacts of household consumption, are a priority in the EU's Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP), and give good examples of user awareness schemes (e.g. labeling).

The CA is organized around a series of Workshops and Conferences. The first workshop will provide a general exchange of views. The second phase of the project gives sustainable consumption cases in the domains center stage. These are used as vehicles for a positive confrontation of insights from different science fields, leading to true best practice generation, suggestions for implementation of user awareness approaches, research programming, and development of conceptual insights. The science and consumption domains are covered by 8 WP leaders and 21 Participants and will involve a much larger community of SCP experts from industry, government, and science. A close liaison with UNEP, promoting a 10 Year Framework of Programs on SCP will be organized. Finally, the CA should have to build a permanent, self-supporting research network in this field.

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MEPPS. Product Service Systems Methodology – Development of a toolkit for industry.

2001-2004

Coordination of the design area for the international research, coordinated by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), funded by the European Union, 5° Framework program.

The aim of this project was to develop an integrated methodology for the design of sustainable Product Service Systems (PSS), starting from three main thematic areas:

– PSS design (scenario development and sustainable PSS design)

– Assessment of environmental impacts (impact on micro, meso, and macro level)

– Success and failure factors (consumer acceptance, culture, and ethics)

These diverse approaches are converged in a unique methodology. The application of a common language as well as the definition of an ideal design process was crucial.

MEPSS is part of the Competitive and Sustainable Growth Programme of the Fifth Framework Programme, coordinated by PricewaterhouseCoopers N.V. with eight partners and 14 subcontractors.

The dimension of this project is strictly necessary, as its strength lies in its multidisciplinarity. This allows the chance to achieve one of the principle aims of the research: the development of an integrated methodology and theory on PSS.

Every scientific group of the project will provide its contribution to the development of this integrated methodology. At the same time, all of the results will be tested by an internal peer group and applied to pilot projects by other industrial partners (part of a larger group of participants who are coordinated through MEPSS).

The project proved promising because of its approach and because of the concreteness of the expected results, which were possible thanks to the direct application of the results and to the test of the set of tools and methods through pilot projects. All of the project participants agreed that the complexity of the problems raised from environmental degradation can be faced only through a complex approach made up of many different contributions. Communication among diverse disciplines is only possible through a common language and the overcoming of diverging purposes (industrial and private needs vs. social and public problems).

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The most important research projects are the following: (1998-2000) national coordination of the EU funded research Strategies towards the Sustainable Household; (2001-2004) coordination of design research area of the EU funded research, MEPSS. Product Service Systems Methodology – Development of a toolkit for industry; (2005-2008) coordination of the design research area the EU funded research SCORE! Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges; (2007-2010) coordination of the EU funded research (Asia Link project) LeNS. The Learning Network on Sustainability. Network for curricula development on Design for Sustainability focused on Product-Service System; (2011-2013) national coordination of the EU funded research, TANGO-Towards a new Intergenerational Openness; (2012-2014) national coordination of the EU funded research Sustainability maker; (2013-2016) coordination of the EU funded research (EduLink program) LeNSes.

The Learning Network on Sustainable energy systems. Multi-polar and open network for curricula and lifelong learning capacity development focused on locally based Sustainable Energy System Design and Engineering; (2013-2016) coordination of the EU funded research (Erasums+ program) LeNSin. The international Learning Network of networks on Sustainability. A Multi-polar and open network for curricula and capacity development focused on design for sustainability and focused on Sustainable Product-Service Systems (S.PSS) applied to Distributed Economies (DE).

Among the consultancies done, some examples are the following: NECTA vending (vending machine), Dandy Line (electric beds), Illy coffee, GIFCO (professional associations of corrugated cardboard producers), Federlegno (professional associations of furniture producers), Caremi (furniture), Soliani (furniture), Fumagalli (building components), Kone (elevators), Tetra Pak (packaging), Artemide (lightening), General Beverage (vending machine), ASM Brescia company (waste treatment), Kone company (elevators), Tetra Pak (beverage packaging), Area Tortona lab (exhibitions/events promoter) and Bonaveri (mannequins).

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