A Life Cycle Engineering Perspective on Biocomposites as a Solution for a Sustainable Recovery

Composite materials, such as carbon fibre reinforced epoxies, provide more efficient structures than conventional materials through light-weighting, but the associated high energy demand during production can be extremely detrimental to environment. Biocomposites are an emerging material class with potential reduce a product’s through-life environmental impact relative wholly synthetic composites. As most there challenges and opportunities adoption of biocomposites at each stage life cycle. Life Cycle Engineering is readily available tool enabling qualification performance, financial impact, which incorporated in conceptual development phase. Designers engineers beginning actively include environment their workflow, allowing them play significant role future sustainability strategies. This review will introduce outline how concept offer support Design for Environment, followed by discussion advantages disadvantages throughout