Jagdeep Singh
Forskare
Consumer Perspectives on longevity and Reliability : A National Study of Purchasing Factors Across Eighteen Product Categories
Författare
Summary, in English
Increasing global demand for durable goods prevents the decoupling of economic growth from natural resource use required to achieve sustainable consumption and production. Presently, most consumers in the United Kingdom (UK) exhibit a strong preference for purchasing new durable goods. Therefore, short-to-medium term strategies that seek to engender sustainable consumption of durable goods should focus on encouraging consumers to choose longer-lasting, reliable products. This paper outlines the importance consumers place on six purchasing factors (appearance, brand, guarantee length, longevity, price and reliability) across eighteen categories of durable goods. Data was collected from a UK national survey of consumer satisfaction with product lifetimes (n=2207). The research identified that most consumers consistently emphasise the importance of longevity and reliability when purchasing new products. If consumer preference for longer-lasting, reliable products can be translated into purchasing behaviour, progress can be made towards engendering sustainable consumption, enacting the circular economy and reducing national ecological footprints.
Publiceringsår
2018-01-01
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
910-915
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Procedia CIRP
Volym
69
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Ämne
- Environmental Management
Nyckelord
- Consumer survey
- Durable goods
- Longer-lasting products
- Purchasing factors
- Sustainable consumption and production
Conference name
25th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, , CIRP LCE 2018
Conference date
2018-04-30 - 2018-05-02
Conference place
Copenhagen, Denmark
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2212-8271