2007 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
A Life-cycle Comparison of Clothes Washing Alternatives
verfasst von : Luis Garcilaso, Kari L. Jordan, Vishesh Kumar, Margot J. Hutchins, John W. Sutherland
Erschienen in: Advances in Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Manufacturing Businesses
Verlag: Springer London
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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.