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Sustainable products

Résumé
Sustainable products are those products that provide environmental, social and economic benefits while protecting public health and environment over their whole life cycle, from the extraction of raw materials until the final disposal. Scope of definition According to Belz, Frank-Martin., the definition of sustainable product has six characteristics:
  • Customer satisfaction: any products or services that do not meet customer needs will not survive in the market in a long term.
  • Dual focus: compared with purely environmental products, sustainable products focus both on ecological and social significance.
  • Life-cycle orientation: sustainable products are environmentally-friendly throughout their entire life. That is, from the moment the raw materials are extracted to the moment the final product is disposed of, there must be no permanent damage to the environment.
  • Significant improvements: sustainable products contribute to dealing with socio-ecological problems on a glob
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