12 steps for implementing ECODESIGN in practice

Twelve steps for implementing ECODESIGN in practice taken from the book "ECODESIGN IMPLEMENTATION - A Systematic Guidance on Integrating Environmental Considerations into Product Development". The book was written by the ECODESIGN experts Wolfgang Wimmer, Rainer Züst and Kun-Mo Lee and was published by Springer.

1.Describing the reference product with environmental parameters.
2.Performing Environmental Quality Function Deployment.
3.Environmental Benchmarking with the competitors products.
4.Applying the ECODESIGN PILOT's Assistant orperforming Life Cycle Assessment and interpretation of results.
5.Deriving common ECODESIGN improvement strategies.
6.Applying ECODESIGN PILOT's checklists to determine redesign tasks.
7.Starting product improvement.
8.Adding new functions to and/or modifying functions of the reference product.
9.Performing creativity session and/or searching for patents.
10.Assembling ideas corresponding to each function of the redesigned product concepts and evaluate them against criteria.
11.Continuing embodiment design and layout, prototyping and testing.
12.Performing Environmental Product Declaration or self declared environmental claims.