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Design for the Environment Program (DfE) is a United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program, created in 1992, that works to prevent pollution, and the risk pollution presents to humans and the environment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= U.S. EPA Design for the Environment )〕 The DfE program provides information regarding safer electronics, safer flame retardants, safer chemical formulations, and best environmental practices.〔 DfE employs design approaches 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. == Introduction == Design for the Environment is a global movement targeting design initiatives and incorporating environmental motives to improve product design in order to minimize health and environmental impacts. The Design for the Environment (DfE) strategy aims to improve technology and design tactics to expand the scope of products. By incorporating eco-efficiency into design tactics, DfE takes into consideration the entire life-cycle of the product, while still making products usable but minimizing resource use. The key focus of DfE is to minimize the environmental-economic cost to consumers while still focusing on the life-cycle framework of the product. By balancing both customer needs as well as environmental and social impacts DfE aims to "improve the product use experience both for consumers and producers, while minimally impacting the environment". In the US, Design for the Environment is an EPA program works to "notify the public" of less harmful substitutes to certain products. They do so by labeling environmentally safe products with a DfE label to provide information on safer or alternative products to those which use harmful chemicals. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Design for the Environment」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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