A life-cycle comparison of clothes washing alternatives
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Abstract
Several clothes washing alternatives are investigated with a specific emphasis on characterizing the benefit, if any, associated with servicizing a washing machine product. The pay for use alternative will consider a laundromat, in which people wash their clothes and pay a fee for that service. Another alternative is selling washing machines for home use. The alternatives are evaluated in terms of their economic costs and environmental impacts to provide a quantitative comparison of the alternatives. The environmental evaluation is obtained using SimaPro 7.0. Specific measures of performance that are considered include costs, energy, and water usage.
Publication Title
Advances in Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Manufacturing Businesses - Proceedings of the 14th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering
Recommended Citation
Garcilaso, L.,
Jordan, K.,
Kumar, V.,
Hutchins, M.,
&
Sutherland, J.
(2007).
A life-cycle comparison of clothes washing alternatives.
Advances in Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Manufacturing Businesses - Proceedings of the 14th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, 423-428.
http://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-935-4_73
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