Product design

The design of products presents a huge opportunity to address the significant environmental and social challenges of our time.

Products can be designed for greater material efficiency and reducing waste, reducing resource use, using alternative, more sustainable raw materials, reduction of packaging and alternative packaging.

Products can also be designed with the circular economy in mind - where, after use, a product can be broken down to component parts and re-utilised in the manufacture of further products.

Newleaf supports businesses and policy makers understand the key sustainability challenges in the products and product categories and how to re-design the product to overcome the challenges and deliver more environmental and social benefits.