Product Ecology Project

The Product Ecology Project Environmenlally-Sound Product Development Based on the EPS System (Environmental Pricrrity Strategies in Product Design), Federation of Swedish Industries (1993). 

Volvo has developed a material selection strategy in close co-operation with its sub-suppliers. "The current preference is to choose clean and simple materials", says Carl-Otto Neven, representing Volvo in the Product Ecology Project [14]. This is a project co-ordinated by the Federation of Swedish Industries, aimed at developing user-friendly PC-based tools for calculating the total environmental... 

With regard to hazardous substance substitution, the guiding principle of the intrinsic safety of chemical substances, products or application systems was examined within the scope of the SubChem project. An essential approach for implementation of the guiding principle of the intrinsically safe substance or the intrinsically safe application system, especially with regard to the health and ecological consequences, would be the use of chemicals of short ranges (chemicals with low environmental persistence and transport distance) e.g. by ... 

Projects relating to the use of bioproducts have been conducted in our laboratory at the Federal University of Sao Carlos in Brazil. Three main projects can be mentioned. The first involves studies on the potential of certain plant species to produce natural products for the control of leaf-cutting ants. The second is on the theme of phytochemistry and chemical ecology, and concerns the search for model eompounds for the development of new insecticides, fungicides and bactericides to control plant pests. And the third concerns a search for antiparasitic natural products. 

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