Footwear environmental footprint category rules implementation and innovative green shoes ecodesign and recycling.

Footwear environmental footprint category rules implementation and innovative green shoes ecodesign and recycling.



Ecodesign Guide for Footwear Industry

This short guide provides strategies to assist footwear companies in the development of footwear products with lower environment footprint.

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Footwear environmental footprint category rules implementation and innovative green shoes ecodesign and recycling

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The Project

Description

The project aims to implement, demonstrate and disseminate a Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology for footwear and to develop efficient ecodesign, recycling and manufacturing solutions, in order to obtain performing shoes with a lower PEF

In particular, LIFE GreenShoes4All intends to achieve a Single Market for Green Products by promoting the great added value of the innovative Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) methodology.

The project also intends to test and demonstrate new recycling routes in the EU footwear value chain and to establish and compare, through demonstrative experimentations, innovative ecodesign concepts and eco-processes for shoe manufacturing.

Objectives

• Implement a Footwear Environmental Footprint Category Rules (FEFCR) methodology
• Establish innovative ecodesign concepts and eco-processes for shoe manufacturing with great transfer potential to other sectors (i.e. leather goods, clothes, etc.)
• Test new recycling routes in the EU footwear value chain to reduce raw materials needed and wastes discarded
• Contribute to building a Single Market for Green Products by demonstrating the great added value of the footwear PEFCR methodology for producers, retailers and consumers
• Allow beneficiaries to acquire experience and knowledge resulting in new services and products to market

EXPECTED OUTCOMES

• Application of FEFCR's demonstration pilot to different footwear styles produced in the EU
• Reports on PEFCR's applicability to selected shoe styles and recommendations to reduce the environmental footprint
• Development of innovative sustainable green shoes and components, as well as ecodesign, recycling and manufacturing methodologies for low Footwear Environmental Footprint (FEF) & sustainable footwear
• A strategy to ensure sustainability, replicability and transferability of the project to other sectors

News

ECODESIGN FOR FOOTWEAR

“integration of environmental aspects into product design and development, with the aim of reducing adverse environmental impacts throughout a product’s life cycle"

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PRODUCT ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF FOOTWEAR LIFE

Product environmental Footprint (PEF) is a method based on a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)

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Working towards a circular footwear industry

On 7th September 2022, the partners of the LIFE GreenShoes4All project met again in hybrid format, this time in Elda (Spain) at the INESCOP premises, or virtually.

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Through Ecodesign, Environmental Footprint Calculation and Recycling

On 1st June 2022, the LIFE GreenShoes4All project organised an online conference

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More News

Newsletter 01

December 2020

A step forward reaching a
Circular Economy in the footwear industry

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Newsletter 02

December 2021

LIFE GreenShoes4All project supports EU footwear companies
in their green transition

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Newsletter 03

September 2022

An opportunity for strengthening
the resilience of a sustainable footwear industry

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LIFE and the circular economy

The LIFE GreenShoes4All project is measuring the environmental impact of footwear products to help manufacturers reduce their waste and emissions.

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Partners

Contacts

 
 
 


Lead Partner:
Centro Tecnológico do Calçado de Portugal
Rua de Fundões - Devesa Velha
3700-121 S. João da Madeira
Tel. 256 830 950

www.ctcp.pt
[email protected]

Communication:
European Footwear Confederation
Rue de la Science 14b
1040 Brussels (Belgium)
Tel. 255 312 146

www.cec-footwearindustry.eu