Ecodesign Centre Wales

our role work with industry, public sector organisations and higher education so that effective ecodesign can happen in Wales

established in September 2006

80%of environmentalimpactsof a product or service can be locked-in at the design stage

why ecodesign?

source: NASA and UK environment Agency

source: Chris Jordan and CKS recycling

Image www.castlereagh.gov.uk

£32Landfill Tax UK

Landfill tax in the UK has risen from £7.00 per tonne in 1996 to £32.00 in 2008

400,000 tonnes of furniture is dumped every year in the UK

business in the community 2008

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source: Vodafone

"Sonicare Elite 7000“produced at 11 locations and in five time zones, comprised of 38 components, parts supplied by Japan, France, China and Malaysia, materials and production in Austria, Sweden, assembly in Philippines and United States, when fully assembled and packaged in Seattle the components have travelled a full 27,880 kilometres, two thirds of the Earth's circumference.

source: SPIEGEL Magazine

“If everyone in the world were to consume natural resources and generate carbon dioxide (CO2) at the rate we do in the UK, we'd need three planets to support us”

WWF UK

source: Steelcase, Herman MIller

source: Carbon Trust

• consumes 54% less energy • uses 14% less packaging • 33% lighter• improves recycling and disposal by 12%. • eliminated cadmium, lead and mercury

image source: philips

Philips DECT 525 telephone

based at Hengoed

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