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  • Published: Mar 18th, 2010
  • Category: UK
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Opinion: Consumer product carbon footprints up to 60% higher than necessary, with simple solutions being ignored by manufacturers


- Simple steps to address five core products would save the UK 8 million tonnes each year in carbon equating to 19.9 billion road miles -

If manufacturers were to adopt simple ecodesign principles and re-evaluate the production process of just five staple consumer products (kettle, television, mobile phone, fridge,
laptop), the UK would save over 8 million tonnes of C02 each year

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