The Quickstarts provide D4S strategies, technical information on plastics, relevant regulations and standards, and additional resources. There are twelve Quickstarts in the series.
The Quickstart series includes the following titles, across four key areas shown further below. Click on the relevant title or image to access each Quickstart:
- Q1: Design for sustainability with plastics (PDF 1.3MB)
- Q2: Plastics and the environment (PDF 1.1MB)
- Q3: Life cycle design tools (PDF 1.1MB)
- Q4: Degradable polymers in product design (PDF 861kB)
- Q5: Design for recovery at end of life (PDF 529kB)
- Q6: Sustainable design principles for plastic building products (PDF 2.2MB)
- Q7: Specifying recycled plastics (PDF 1.3MB)
- Q8: Life cycle assessment (PDF 2.4MB)
- Q9: Innovations for sustainability (PDF 1.3MB)
- Q10: Adapting to a carbon constrained economy (PDF 3.0MB)
- Q11: Sustainable design principles for packaging (PDF 212kB)
- Q12: New business models (PDF 1.0MB)
Overview
Understanding life cycle impacts
End of life recovery
Product specific strategies
Transformation
