A Proposal of Consumer Driven Framework for Enabling Sustainable Production and Consumption

Abstract : Sustainability becomes the key towards success of manufacturing industries now. Besides increasing efficiency of sustainable industrial processes, sustainable consumption becomes an important complementary strategy for making economies more sustainable gradually. Hence, the research in sustainable production and consumption (SPaC) keeps emerging and the approach of information transition became noticed as the key to promote SPaC. Therefore, there is a notable need for generating proper approach in order to achieve the goal of providing sustainable information of a product for consumers has been discussed.This paper is looking forward to support the implementation of SPaC by developing a framework aimed at providing sustainable information of a product for consumers. Aspects and attributes have been elicited, and a novel metrics of attributes integrate with life cycle has been developed. Furthermore, a conceptualized framework aimed at evaluating social and environmental performances of a product in its production phase has been developed.