Product-Service Systems and Sustainability: Opportunities for Sustainable Solutions

“This publication examines the potential of sustainability in product-service systems, particularly in term of life-cycle approaches. It includes case studies of companies offering product-service systems, such as Auto Share of Toronto which, rather than selling or renting cars, sells memberships in a car-usage system and charges members for the time they use a car.”  from United Nations Environment Program Document Depository

This UNEP document is a very comprehensive guide for first-timers to understand the potentials for sustainability beyond the scale of product/technology and reflecting on designs on both product and services level.

Creator: Ezio Manzini & Carlo Vezzoli Year: 2002

External Link:

  1. Product-Service Systems and Sustainability: Opportunities for Sustainable Solutions

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