Green Product Development and Resource Efficient Production
The general objective of this project is to transfer to Russia (St. Petersburg) knowledge on how to assess the environmental impacts from the manufacture and use of industrial products and how to reduce such impacts (cleaner production).
The operational objectives to achieve the general objective are as follows:
- Establish a strong Russian/St. Petersburg group having knowledge about LCA (life cycle assessment), sustainable production and green product development.
- Implement and demonstrate the methodology in pilot cases. The aim is to demonstrate, in full scale, how to assess a product chain and how to find solutions minimising the environmental emissions from a production chain and from the use of the product.
- Transfer the knowledge to a wider audience. A final seminar will be arranged where all the results will be presented to interested people from other regions, and a website will be opened.
In summary the project aims at initiating in practice the integrated product policy in Russia. In the project work we are using and demonstrating state-of-the-art assessment methods, such as life cycle assessment in its various practical designs, and state-of-the-art technical solutions for cleaner production. This has been done in similar projects in Latvia and Lithuania by the IVL, using the working methodology outlined above.
"Life Cycle Assessment systematic approach towards environmental insight"
LCA is a method to assess the potential environmental impacts of products/ services from the cradle to the grave.
