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Product ecodesign checklist
Considering the whole of a product's lifecycle to ensure goods and services become more sustainable
Ecodesign: compliance and standards
Understand the legal responsibilities and standards that relate to the ecodesign of products, and how to ensure compliance with ecodesign directives
Ecodesign for end of product life
How to design products so that you or your customers can reuse or dispose of them in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective way
Evaluate your ecodesign products
How to use feedback from production and sales departments to ensure the manufacture of profitable ecodesign products
What is ecodesign?
An overview of ecodesign and the key environmental considerations when developing products using ecodesign principles
Ecodesign: process and strategies
How to plan ecodesign for your products and introduce ecodesign activities within your business’ existing design process
Identify ecodesign priorities
Assess your priorities when developing new or revised products that will use ecodesign
Research your products for ecodesign
How to carry out research and life cycle assessment to ensure that new or revised products follow ecodesign principles
Material efficiency and reducing waste in your hotel
How to reduce waste and use materials more efficiently in areas across your hotel including procurement and office, bedroom, kitchen and cleaning consumables
Recycling waste in your hotel
The benefits of recycling waste in your hotel, and consideration for starting a recycling scheme including which materials are suitable for recycling
Resource efficiency support for your hotel
Where you can get help, support and advice to improve resource efficiency in your hotel including Invest NI, the Carbon Trust and Love Food, Hate Waste
Save water in your hotel
Use water more efficiently in your hotel in guest rooms, catering, laundry, swimming pools and grounds maintenance, investigate alternative water sources
Ten top tips for resource efficiency in your hotel
Easy-to-follow tips for improving energy, water and materials efficiency and reducing waste in your hotel, from controlling bedroom temperatures to recycling
Energy efficiency in your hotel
Save money, enhance your reputation and help the environment by making your hotel more energy efficient through best practice environmental techniques
Trade marks and geographical indications
Guidance for businesses and organisations on the relationship between trade marks and geographical indications (GIs)
How you can use product design
How careful design of your products can increase your profits and reduce your production costs
Placing manufactured products on the market in Great Britain
What you need to do to comply with regulations on manufactured products you place on the market in Great Britain.
How can copyright help my business?
Copyright can provide an important source of income for your business – here’s how to profit from your copyright
The design audit
What is a design audit, how to conduct one, and what are the related advantages to your business
Design management process
Key steps involved in managing the design process - from setting the goals to evaluating results and feedback