Return to sender

When I was checking the internet to find some information about return to sender I came across the website of the Melbourne based Centre for Design sustainability/research/solutions. The Centre for Design is a team of multi disciplinary researchers and consultants with backgrounds in architecture, industrial design, interior design, environmental science, arts and cleaner production. The Centre for Design (CfD) is currently based in the portfolio of Design and Social Content in the school of Architecture and Design at RMIT’s city campus in Melbourne. RMIT is one of Australia's largest and most respected technical and design universities.
The website has a lot of information but I couldn't find any interesting information about sustainable product design... a lot of text;
The Sustainable Products and Packaging Program aims to reduce the environmental impacts of products and packaging through ecodesign, development of tools, educational curricula, research, consulting and training activities. Sustainable products and packaging addresses environmental issues from design to production to end of life stages.
This Program is currently developing two key life cycle management tools; ‘Packaging Impact Quick Evaluation Tool (PIQET) ©’ and ‘Rapid Assessment Tool (RAT) ©’. PIQET© is an independent scientifically based decision support tool (prototype) for packaging which evaluates environmental impacts of packagingsystems throughout the life cycle. On the other hand, RAT© will assist product designers, engineers and manufacturers to incorporate environmental issues during the product development process. Both tools will be on-line web based tools; PIQET© is expected to be launched in mid-2007 and RAT© mid-2008.
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