Ecodesign can reduce the environmental impact of a product up to 80%, according to Aimplas

The technological Institute of plastics (Aimplas) ensures that the environmental impacts that may cause the product throughout its life cycle introducing environmental criteria when designing a new product can reduce up to 80%. For this reason, the Institute has published two guides of eco-design of the container and packaging industry and electric and electronic sector. The guides are aimed at designers of products, development engineering and technical personnel of companies manufacturers of plastic parts.

According to Eva Verdejo, researcher of Aimplas, "what we want is that the environmental criterion when designing a product to be taken into account at the same level in that they are considered the rest of criteria such as the technical, economic, etc."", from the initial stage of design, as it has been shown to modify a product once designed it is virtually impossible".

Guides collect all kinds of ecodesign measures to be taken into account when designing a new product: materials, think about how to transform the product, the use that is going to give, transport or their fate at the end of its useful life.