JEFF VICKERS

Technical Director, thinkstep Australasia

Tell us a bit about thinkstep and the work it does. Thinkstep Australasia works to enable companies to succeed sustainably. We are locally owned and part of the global thinkstep group. We started out doing life cycle assessment (LCA) in the early 1990s. LCA looks at the full environmental performance of a product or service, or even of a whole company. This is called either cradle to grave, if you are looking at the ‘take, make, waste’ linear model of the economy, or cradle to cradle, if you’re talking about how you can design products for a circular economy. Our work involves taking a systems-based approach, thinking about products and systems as a whole and focusing on the needs they meet and the functions they fulfil. If you think about…

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