The WP4 will develop the results of the previous WP, concerning the analysis of the environmental pressures of products and to their traceability. These activities foresee a thorough analysis, in order to reduce the environmental pressures through the development of criteria for sustainable design (EcoDesign), and the provision of some tools in order to improve the sustainable chain management through the “Green Procurement” approach. The WP is divided in two tasks:
Task 4.1 “Definition of sustainable design” tools. Ù
A “Manual of sustainability” (set of rules for the design) will be elaborated, to define the environmental performance and contribute in a real and concrete way to the environmental improvement of the typical product (working on its desired environmental characteristics based on the LCA results).
Task 4.2 ”Green Procurement and Green Supply”
We will define and adopt the criteria for the identification of the suppliers, of the productive inputs and of the conditions of provisioning.