The 5 topics - case study
To make you familiar with life cycle thinking and applying sustainability on products and their systems, you will follow the most relevant lifecycle steps of: selling a bag of groceries and selling a fashion outfit. So as you can see is not only the direct impact of the product on the environment relevant, but also the processes that are needed in order to make the sales possible. Hence, a life cycle is to be considered from mining the materials to disposing the product. Since some of the supply chain characteristics and challenges of the food and fashion retail are significantly differing, not all guidelines will apply as much to both markets.