Consumables are a diverse and complex group of products - such as mobile phones, refrigerators, clothing, cleaning agents, personal care products and paints - that generally have short to medium lifetimes in society. Textiles including clothing also consume many different kinds of resources such as cotton, synthetic materials like polyester, dye pigments, and chemicals.
Consists of:
👚📺 Chemicals free
Use bio-plastic
Use less plastic
Use less chemicals
Saving: 0.96 Gt emissions and 2.50 Gt material use
👚📺 Circular consumables
Recycle plastics
Use recycled toilet paper
Use recycled writing paper
Increase recycled materials in furniture
Start closed loop recycling of synthetic fibres
Saving: 0.31 Gt emissions and 0.45 Gt material use
👚📺 Efficient design and use of consumer products
Less and more efficient paper use
Less and more efficient and natural textile use
Less and more efficient plastic use
Less and more efficient furniture use
Less and more efficient electronic goods use
Saving: 0.30 Gt emissions and 0.80 Gt material use
👚📺 Durable consumer products
Impose a minimum duration for consumables before which the sellers are obliged to remanufacture, refurbish, repair, or upgrade for free the product.
Repair
Maintenance
Sharing
Secondhand use of textiles, appliances, furniture, machinery and equipment
Saving: 0.18 Gt emissions and 0.27 Gt material us
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