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Slower Consumption

Slower Consumption. Dan Fancher presents Tim Cooper’s. Reflections on product life spans and the “Throwaway Society”. Tim cooper. WEEE, WEEE, WEEE, WEEE, all the way home? An evaluation of proposed electrical and electronic waste legislation The durability of consumer durables

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Slower Consumption

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  1. Slower Consumption Dan Fancher presents Tim Cooper’s Reflections on product life spans and the “Throwaway Society”

  2. Tim cooper WEEE, WEEE, WEEE, WEEE, all the way home? An evaluation of proposed electrical and electronic waste legislation The durability of consumer durables Challenging the ‘refuse revolution’: war, waste and the rediscovery of recycling, 1900–50 Recycling Modernity: Waste and Environmental History Professor in the College of Art & Design and Built Environment, School of Architecture Design and the Built Environment: Sustainable Design and Consumption Economist with a Ph. D from Sheffield Hallam University Advisor to: the Research Council of Norway, the Irish Environmental Protection Agency, the Belgium Federal Science Policy Office, the House of Commons Environment Committee

  3. The issue • Municipal waste in industrialized countries has been increasing at around the same rate as economic growth, around 40% over the past 30 years. • The “Throwaway Society”

  4. E-Scope survey • Do Products last long enough? • 45% said no • 50% said yes • 5% expressed no opinion • 10% believe that refrigerators and freezers, hi-fis and stereos, telephones, and home and garden tools should last at least 20 years. • 1/3 products disposed of are actually broken and 1/3 of those could have been repaired. • The study concluded that most people do not adopt a consistent approach toward product life spans

  5. What is needed • “The assumption of nonsaturation which is at the core of economic theory must be challenged” • This requires a shift from a linear economy to a circular economy so that inputs of virgin raw material and energy and outputs in the form of waste requiring disposal decline

  6. Redefining Products

  7. Life cycle assessment

  8. Product lifespans and sustainable consumption

  9. Slowing things down

  10. Citations Pictures http://www.greenwisebusiness.co.uk/files/images/newsimg_tim_cooper_0253.jpg?w=300&h=250 http://assets.motherboard.tv/post_images/assets/000/009/869/clock_large.jpg?1308691076 http://eweb.furman.edu/~ballen/slow/logo1.jpg http://www.anadolujet.com/images/skylife/4-2012/3143/129_3143yavas_sehir_18.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BIP0gnIZB3s/SiYu3KzUmyI/AAAAAAAAAFI/o-S0vDkYLFw/s400/Birt_mouthful.jpg http://www.amazon.com/HP-Deskjet-Printer-CH340A-B1H/dp/B003YGZIY0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1350862200&sr=8-3&keywords=hp+printer http://www.amazon.com/HP-CH562WN-140-Tri-Color-Cartridge/dp/B003H2AZJE/ref=pd_bxgy_e_img_y http://www.amazon.com/HP-CH561WN-140-Ink-Cartridge-Black/dp/B003H2GBM4/ref=pd_bxgy_e_img_y http://www.xomoxnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/FEAT-IMGsm-Apple-Planned-Obsolescence.jpg http://www.solidworks.com/sustainability/docs/LCA_graphic_for_web.jpg http://www.brad.ac.uk/ten-plus-one/media/TENPLUSONE/Images/linear-circular-economy.jpg http://vermonttimberworks.com/Web-Photos/Home-Page-Photos/hand-crafted-timber-frame-hi.jpg Text Cooper, T. (2005). Slower Consumption Reflections on Product Life Spans and the “Throwaway Society.” Journal of Industrial Ecology, 9(1-2), 51–67. doi:10.1162/1088198054084671

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