Silva's sustainability work begins in the design department. We design products so that we as people can discover and enjoy nature more. Our basic philosophy is that our products should maintain high quality and last for a long time, but that is no longer sufficient as the only argument for sustainability. In today's consumer society, one of the main problems is that we as consumers buy a great many products that we never or rarely use.
WHY THE DESIGN PHASE IS IMPORTANT
80% of our products' environmental impact during their life cycle is determined during the design phase*. We therefore need to change the way we work to create even more sustainable products that last over time. They should be designed to be repaired, easily resold, and ultimately recycled when they’ve done their job.
*Source: EU Eco Design Directive
OUR GOAL 2030
We have set a goal that before 2030 all our products can be reused or recycled. As a first step, we are now developing new design guidelines that will be implemented in 2024. We have also started a number of initiatives to develop our design process, which you can read more about below.
Design for Recycling and Reuse
Another important topic that currently has the highest priority is how we can design our products so that they can be disassembled at the end of their product life cycle, thus enabling the recycling or reuse of all components. In this area, we take help from experts from Stena Recycling.
WHY THE DESIGN PHASE IS IMPORTANT
80% of our products' environmental impact during their life cycle is determined during the design phase*. We therefore need to change the way we work to create even more sustainable products that last over time. They should be designed to be repaired, easily resold, and ultimately recycled when they’ve done their job.
*Source: EU Eco Design Directive
OUR GOAL 2030
We have set a goal that before 2030 all our products can be reused or recycled. As a first step, we are now developing new design guidelines that will be implemented in 2024. We have also started a number of initiatives to develop our design process, which you can read more about below.
Design for Recycling and Reuse
Another important topic that currently has the highest priority is how we can design our products so that they can be disassembled at the end of their product life cycle, thus enabling the recycling or reuse of all components. In this area, we take help from experts from Stena Recycling.
80% of our products' environmental impact during their life cycle is determined during the design phase*
*Source: EU Eco Design Directive
REDUCE THE USE OF DISPOSABLE BATTERIES
In 2019, we launched headlamps with "hybrid functionality". This means that the headlamps can be used with either alkaline disposable batteries or with rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries. Then we carried out a comparative LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) on headlamps where we made a number of assumptions about the use of a headlamp over a 10-year period. Here, the results showed that with rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries, CO2 emissions are 63% lower during the lifetime of a headlamp compared to disposable batteries.
This meant that in 2022 we made a decision to stop selling alkaline disposable batteries with our headlamps and from autumn 2024 this will be implemented in the entire range.
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