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Too much stuff – the impact of consumerism on climate changeTIM COOPER PROFESSOR OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND CONSUMPTION
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Too much stuff?
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Unsustainable lifestyles on a finite planet
Source: World Wide Fund for Nature
Source: Oxfam
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More materials = More emissions
Source: CIE-MAP 2015
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Impacts through the (cotton) life cycle
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Reducing material flows
Source: CIE-MAP 2015
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Longevity in context
Source: Cooper (2005) Slower Consumption
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Recent European Union initiatives
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Publications on product lifetimes
413
611
1529
46
0 10 20 30 40 50
1950-1960
1971-1980
1991-2000
2006-2010
Number of publications since 1950*
Source: Cooper (2010)
Source: Cooper, Braithwaite, Moreno and Salvia (2016, forthcoming)
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Consumer influences on life-spans
Personal characteristics e.g. age, gender, attitudes, values, skills
Social / situational characteristics
Product characteristics e.g. appearance, origin
Factors affecting consumption
Consumption process
Choices / Actions during phases of Acquisition Use Disposal
Outcome
Product's potential life-span
Source: Evans and Cooper, in T. Cooper (ed) (2010) Longer Lasting Products
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Understanding consumers’ behaviour
Source: Piscicelli, Cooper et al. (2015)
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Case 1: Clothing
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Emissions and clothing longevity
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Clothing studies for Defra and WRAP
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Consumers’ willingness to change
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Electrical and electronic waste
Source: Product Sustainability Forum (WRAP) (2012)
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Case 2: Vacuum cleaners
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Longer lasting vacuum cleaners - Design outcomes
Information Senses
Emotion Convenience
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• 110 participants from 16 countries
• 66 accepted papers
• Public exhibition with 42 exhibits
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Contact details
Tim CooperProfessor of Sustainable Design and ConsumptionHead, Sustainable Consumption Research GroupCo-Director, Centre for Industrial Energy, Materials and Products
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0115 848 4329
www.ntu.ac.uk/sustainableconsumptionwww.ciemap.leeds.ac.uk