INTRODUCTION
- Key concepts
- Sources, methods and tools of study
PRODUCTION: TECHNICAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
- Production: process, products, supply chains
- Technological, economic and environmental constraints
- Analysis of the environmental aspects of a product or a process
MATERIALS IN PRODUCTION
- Classification of materials and families
- Characteristics and properties of materials
- Environmental criticalities in the management of materials
MATERIALS RECOVERY AND RECYCLING
- 5R options (definition, characteristics, effects on the supply chain, benefits, critical issues, examples)
a) reduction
b) reuse and multiple use
c) remanufacturing
d) recycling: all options with examples of materials
e) recovery
- Industrial symbiosis
DURABLE GOODS
- Definitions
- Dismissed durable goods
- Extended producer responsibility
- Eco-Design
- Reverse Logistics
MANAGEMENT OF THE END-LIFE OF DURABLE GOODS
- WEEE and VFU management systems in Italy
