Understanding the Brezet wheel
Eco-innovate quickly with the Brezet wheel

The Brezet wheel, or eco-design strategy wheel (also known as LiDS, Life Cycle Design Strategy Wheel), is a tool developed in 1994 by Carolien Van Hemmel and more widely disseminated in 1997 by Han Brezet and Carolien Van Hemmel in the guide Ecodesign: A Promising Approach to Sustainable Production and Consumption published by UNEP. Widely used since then, its purpose is to guide creativity by facilitating the identification of avenues for environmental improvement and eco-innovation. To this end, it considers eight areas of focus (eco-design strategies), which are themselves divided into sub-areas, covering all aspects of the product that could potentially have an environmental impact. It also provides an easy-to-understand, qualitative visualization of the potential environmental benefits of the various solutions under consideration (and possibly a reference solution).

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