The current systems of consumption and production cause long-lasting social-ecological damage and a fundamental change seems inevitable, if livelihoods of present and future generations are to be preserved. The lifetimes of products and their performance concerning reliability, functionality, re-usability and recyclability are core issues in the transformation from a linear to a more sustainable circular economy. While discussions on product lifetimes have been going on for a number of years, the topic has come to the forefront of current (political, scientific & societal) debates due to its interconnectedness with a number of recent prominent movements, such as the circular economy, ecodesign and collaborative consumption. The 3rd international PLATE conference (Product Lifetimes And The Environment), held from 18-20 June 2019 in Berlin, Germany, addressed product lifetimes in the context of sustainability. The proceedings of this conference present a great variety of significant research on how to enable more sustainable practices of designing, producing, using, re-pur-posing and recycling products and on how to assess the sustainability of these endeavours. The authors work in inter- and transdisciplinary teams that operate at the crossroads of engineering, design, social sciences and environmental sciences.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The current systems of consumption and production cause long-lasting social-ecological damage and a fundamental change seems inevitable, if livelihoods of present and future generations are to be preserved. The lifetimes of products and their performance concerning reliability, functionality, re-usability and recyclability are core issues in the transformation from a linear to a more sustainable circular economy. While discussions on product lifetimes have been going on for a number of years, the topic has come to the forefront of current (political, scientific & societal) debates due to its interconnectedness with a number of recent prominent movements, such as the circular economy, ecodesign and collaborative consumption. The 3rd international PLATE conference (Product Lifetimes And The Environment), held from 18-20 June 2019 in Berlin, Germany, addressed product lifetimes in the context of sustainability. The proceedings of this conference present a great variety of significant research on how to enable more sustainable practices of designing, producing, using, re-pur-posing and recycling products and on how to assess the sustainability of these endeavours. The authors work in inter- and transdisciplinary teams that operate at the crossroads of engineering, design, social sciences and environmental sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-8040","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","product_cat-institut-fuer-hochfrequenz-und-halbleiter-systemtechnologien","product_tag-product-lifetimes-environment-production-consumption-life-cycle-produktlebensdauer-umwelt-produktion-konsum-lebenszyklus","autor-melanie-jaeger-erben","autor-nils-f-nissen","edition-universitaetsverlag-tu-berlin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verlag.tu-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/8040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verlag.tu-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verlag.tu-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verlag.tu-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verlag.tu-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verlag.tu-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}