Design for Environment

July 2000


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Table of Contents

Cover page

Survey Statistics

Q1. Type of Industry

Q2. Does your company have a published EH&S policy?

Q3. Does your EH&S policy mention EH&S evaluation of new products or new product design?

Q4. Does your company publish an EH&S annual report?

Q5. Does your company have corporate metrics for EH&S performance?

Q6. If yes, do any of those EH&S corporate metrics focus on EHS attributes of products?

Q7. Does your company commercialize new products?

Q8. If yes, what types of products?

Q9. Does your company have a formal process to commercialize new products?

Q10. If yes to question 9, is that processed applied in... ?

Q11. If yes to question 9, does that process apply to products... ?

Q12. If yes to question 9, does that process apply to... ?

Q13. Does that commercialization process include any of the following?

Q14. Do you include environmental considerations in your product commercialization process?

Q15. If yes to question 14, do those environmental considerations apply to products... ?

Q16. If yes to question 14, do those environmental considerations apply to... ?

Q17. If yes to question 14, and you commercialize products in more than one geographic location, do you apply environmental considerations consistently in your product commercialization process?

Q18. Where in your product commercialization process does your company include environmental considerations?

Q19. Does your product commercialization process consider compliance with... ?

Q20. Does your company conduct advocacy to potentially influence future environmental regulations?

Q21. Does your company use Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as part of your product commercialization process?

Q22. If yes to question 21, which stages of the Product Life Cycle are included?

Q23. Does your company use "LCA Thinking" as part of your product commercialization process?

Q24. Does your company have performance metrics for inclusion of environmental considerations in your product commercialization process?

Q25. Has your company marketed your products based on an environmental differentiation?

Q26. Is compliance with eco-labeling standards considered during product commercialization?

Q27. Is product "take-back" considered in the commercialization process?