Produce Sustainable Goods

"How ca we keep counting on essentials and profitable goods and products while sufficiently lowering our impact upon the eco-system to reach a sustainable way of life?"

This could be the big question for this century as instead of taking place the year after, the overshoot day has kept coming sooner and we would now need 4 planets if every human beings on earth had the standard leaving of the French people.

Sustainable Goods have zero carbon, zero waste and they do not impact more the planet over time than what the planet and the eco-system can handle and renew. Let's just say these are rare artefacts today!

These pages provide keys to optimise the resources we use and the way we used them though a full consideration of the systemic parameters that can influence a product life-cycle.

Recycling and Reuse

A pulp of virgin fibers and Carbon Pigments for R&D production

In chemistry, Lavoisier let a famous french sentence: "Rien ne se perd rien ne se crée, tout se transofrme". Ideend, atoms never disappear in chemistry. It is their electrons that play around with other atoms to break and recreate molecules, which requires or generates various amounts of energies;

So at our scale, it looks like humans and the earth constantly produce and destroy, and the more he consumes energy, the more he changes molecules. But energy is expensive in terms of financial cost, and carbon rates involved, and while not hard to produce, it is hard to store and produce exactly what is being consumed.

It is then esential to minimise the energy consumption through a direct recycling or reuse of our wastes instead of burning or burying them thinking this is not lost anyway.

In the case of papers, according to Canopy Sources it takes half of the water and 2/3rd of the energy to reproduce a recycled paper than to produce a paper made of virgin fibers. You can save 22 trees when producing 1 ton of recycled paper and you will not have to bury or burn paper wastes.

Thus, if paper has to be be produced through sustainble life-cycles, there are many other condictions involved, anddevelopping optimized recycling process, programs and consumers involvments are definitely essential for Sustainbale hardware products life-cycles.