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Graduated in science and technology for the environment at the University of Milan, Federico BRUGNOLI has a long expertise in working with manufacturing companies, industrial associations at both Italian and European level in various economic sectors : leather tanning, shoe manufacturing, fashion, wood and furniture, trade and waste management. He has coordinated several European projects and is currently the technical coordinator of the European Sectoral Skills Councils for the textile, clothing, leather and economic sectors. He is the founder of SPIN 360, a consulting firm partner of Synesis, a R&D consortium involved in several footwear related projects. Federico BRUGNOLI recently collaborated with UNIDO. investigations within different assessments can be enabled by the proper data modularization. Particularly the component industry can be strategically involved in the footwear certification procedure by the introduction of cross-sectoral audit schemes. As a consequence of such rapid information reuse design processes and product certification procedures can be concurrently aligned.

ABSTRACT

The calculation of the environmental profile of a footwear product involves a number of technical limitations resulting from the limited reliability of the information to be gathered during the inventory phase. Such data are currently collected from a variable and complex supply chains which are distributed at global level. The recent eco-labelling scheme “Environmental Product Declaration” EPD (ISO 14025/TR) proposes a method to overcome such specific limitations in the footwear sector. In fact the use of modular information is introduced to network data from different suppliers and studies. In the present work main methodological changes due to the Footwear EPD scheme introduction are described. Data integration rules to link leather studies and footwear product certification will be specified. Then an eco-efficiency assessment, compliant with the footwear EPD, will be discussed with reference to the design of a classic footwear model. Particularly the variance in environmental impact deriving from different approaches at bill-of-material level will be discussed.The results seem to indicate that a rapid reuse of single “phase-to-phase”

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