5. Conclusion

Sustainable development has become a major challenge, as we strive to preserve our civilization and our planet. In this context, eco-design is at the forefront, enabling sustainable development requirements to be taken into account "at source", and it is at this level that action is most effective.

At first glance, one might think that environmental regulations would be a constraint on manufacturers, naturally resulting in a loss of competitiveness. Experience shows that the opposite is true in most cases. Manufacturers who have practiced eco-design have raised questions about their products that they had never asked themselves before, which have led them to seek solutions and think differently about design. The result is often surprising: the eco-design approach has not only helped to reduce the environmental impact of products, but has also led to the design of...