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Jagdeep Singh. Foto.

Jagdeep Singh

Forskare

Jagdeep Singh. Foto.

Consumer Perspectives on longevity and Reliability : A National Study of Purchasing Factors Across Eighteen Product Categories

Författare

  • Alex Gnanapragasam
  • Christine Cole
  • Jagdeep Singh
  • Tim Cooper

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