Eco-design and recycling

Understand current environmental issues (environmental statement)
Understand the challenges of eco-design to improve the environmental performance of man-made products and services (ways to reduce impacts)

Basic engineering knowledge (energy, chemistry, etc.)

1/ Major environmental issues

The global and French energy context
Metal depletion and criticality
Pollution and environmental impacts (climate change, destruction of the ozone layer, photochemical oxidation, acidification, eutrophication, eco-toxicity, etc.).)
Possible solutions

2/ Improving the environmental performance of products: eco-design

Eco-design principles: eco-efficiency, life-cycle thinking, multi-criteria thinking, integration of environmental requirements with other design requirements, etc.
Eco-design tools
Eco-design paths (Brézet wheel)

Developing new concepts
Selecting materials with the least impact
Reducing the quantity of materials
Optimizing production techniques
Optimizing logistics
Reducing the impact of the use phase
Optimizing the life cycle and end-of-life of the system


Reduce, reuse and recycle
Applications in the composites sector

Engineering Sciences and Techniques