BrownBag Lunch: Focus on green products

🌱 …what actually makes a product “green”?

As part of the regular BrownBag Lunch, our colleagues Vanessa Schindler and Michelle Antretter presented their literature research on steel, cement and plastics from the WinIT project WinIT – IREES GmbH on this question

The results of the literature research show The answer to what is considered “green” varies greatly depending on the material.

🔩 Steel & cement:

Most emissions occur during production 👉 GHG limits make sense here and are well covered in the literature.

🧴 Plastics (PP & PE):

Emissions mainly occur at the end of life (incineration) 👉 Limit values are too short-sighted, the literature is incomplete

🔄 Conclusion:

Green product definitions must be material-specific. New approaches are needed for plastics, e.g. recyclable design instead of fixed limit values.

🤔 How would you define green plastics?

IREES – RESEARCH FOR FUTURE 🌍🍃