Slower Consumption Reflections on Product Life Spans and the “Throwaway Society”

By T. Cooper. 2005

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Low carbon lifestyles: A framework to structure consumption strategies and options to reduce carbon footprints (2016, background): “▪ Product use : Consumers can use products instead of buying them (Schor and Fitzmaurice, 2015) and they can extend the lifetime of products by using products for their full useful life by, e.g., repairing, maintaining, upgrading or exchanging defective parts of goods (Cooper, 2005, 2012).”
Circles, spirals, pyramids and cubes: why the circular economy cannot work (2018, background): “Although a few authors (e.g. Allwood et al. 2012; Allwood 2014) reference flow of materials through the economy, while Cooper (2005) emphasizes the sufficiency of resources, at a fundamental level, a circle is a circle, zero waste means zero waste and a closed loop is a closed loop.”
Circular Economy Rebound (2017, background): “Cooper (2005) suggested that increasing product life spans through repair, quality production, and material selection may overcome the rebound effect while also bolstering job creation.”
Changing Paradigms and Global Change: From Sustainable to Steady-state Tourism (2010, background): “Such a change is often categorized as 'sustainable consumption' (Cooper 2005; Jackson 2005).”
Targets for a circular economy (2020, background): “There are designs for longevity, reliability, durability, and disassembly (Cooper, 2005; Vezzoli and Manzini, 2008; Cooper, 2010).”
Toward a Resource‐Efficient Built Environment: A Literature Review and Conceptual Model (2017, background): “It is not only important to use resources and goods more efficiently, but also to limit unnecessary demand—reduce or prevent in the 3R’s waste hierarchy (Stahel 1997; Cooper 2005).”
Product attachment and replacement: implications for sustainable design (2014, unknown): “However, Cooper (2005) explains that consumers also play a key role in sustainable development.”
Voluntary simplicity: an exploration of market interactions (2009, background): “Consumption can also be reduced by reusing and repairing items to lengthen product life-spans (Durning, 1992; Papanek, 1995; Cooper, 2005), purchasing second-hand goods and resisting commodification by growing food on allotments or on ‘part-time farms’ (Pendle, 2000), or by making clothing or…”
Sufficiency transitions: A review of consumption changes for environmental sustainability (2021, background): “In addition, product longevity and sharing practices have occasionally been considered in the sufficiency literature (e.g., Cooper, 2005; Freudenreich and Schaltegger, 2020; Speck and Hasselkuss, 2015).”