Design and the Environment
Reports on the Management Roundtable's Second Annual Congress on Enovironmentally-consciuous Design and Manufacturing: From Best Practices to Profit held in Dearborn, Michigan, USA. States that environmental issues are not a fad, and that environmental factors should be integrated into the manufacture and design of products. Investigates the key issues in the implementation of a corporate environmental programme including cost and time. Examines a few working examples of corporate environmental programmes and concludes that these work. Suggests that implementing such programmes is the way forward.
Keywords: Cost Effectiveness; Design; Environment; Manufacturing Strategy; Packaging; Pollution; Recycling; Regulations; Waste
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 January 1994
- Merged into Integrated Manufacturing Systems in 1996
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