Abstract
To reduce the environmental burden with industrial product chain, it is required to increase the resource productivity or eco-efficiency, for example by reducing energy consumption, expanding product life, recycling or reusing end-of-life products. In this paper, initially the characteristics of reuse for refrigerators are shown. Then the environmental effect of life expanding of products or units with reuse and maintenance is evaluated, and revealed the situation that reuse-oriented product management will have the effectiveness both on the of resource and energy consumption aspects, compared with renewal and material recycling.
