Market Readiness Analysis

Design for the Environment Program (DfE) is a United States
Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) program, created in
1992, that works to prevent pollution, and the risk pollution presents
to humans and the environment. The EPA DfE program provides
information regarding safer electronics, safer flame retardants,
safer chemical formulations, as well as best environmental
practices. DfE employs a variety of design approaches that attempt
to reduce the overall human health and environmental impact of a
product, process or service, where impacts are considered across
its life cycle. Different software tools have been developed to assist
designers in finding optimized products (or processes/services).
The three main goals of DfE are:
Promoting green cleaning and recognizing safer consumer and
industrial and institutional products through safer product labeling.
Defining Best Practices in areas ranging from auto refinishing to
nail salon safety.
Identifying safer chemicals, including life cycle considerations,
through Alternatives Assessment.
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