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Several clothes washing alternatives are investigated with a specific emphasis on characterizing the benefit, if any, associated with servicizing a washing machine product. The pay for use alternative will consider a laundromat, in which people wash their clothes and pay a fee for that service. Another alternative is selling washing machines for home use. The alternatives are evaluated in terms of their economic costs and environmental impacts to provide a quantitative comparison of the alternatives. The environmental evaluation is obtained using SimaPro 7.0. Specific measures of performance that are considered include costs, energy, and water usage.
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Garcilaso, L., Jordan, K.L., Kumar, V., Hutchins, M.J., Sutherland, J.W. (2007). A Life-cycle Comparison of Clothes Washing Alternatives. In: Takata, S., Umeda, Y. (eds) Advances in Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Manufacturing Businesses. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-935-4_73
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