Product Stewardship is all about manufacturers taking responsibility for reducing the health, safety and environmental impacts of your products. It encourages manufacturers to redesign products that are less resource intensive, with fewer hazardous materials, so that they are more durable, reusable and recyclable.
By considering the whole life environmental impacts of products and integrating Product Stewardship principles into the early stages of a products lifecycle (design, specification, development and launch processes) you can avoid or minimize significant environmental impacts and costs over the life cycle of a product and it may also present new opportunities. The potential benefits to your company include:
- lower production costs;
- improved product functionality and quality;
- increased market share;
- improved environmental performance;
- improved customer/supplier relationship;
- continued compliance with legislation;
- easier disassembly and increased potential for recycling;
- longer product design life.
Giraffe has worked with client s to develop product stewardship guideline and processes, internal PS tools and trained engineering and marketing teams in PS principles. This work has resulted in clear environmental and economic benefits for the companies by deploying resource efficiency in product design.