Dimitri Berti: PSS

Strategic Design & Product-Service-System - Dimitri Berti from Dimitri Berti on Vimeo.

PSS > OzHarvest

http://www.ozharvest.org/

Rachel Botsman: collaborative consumption

Collaborative consumption in Australia
The implications of collaborative consumption
Collaborative Consumption infographic
14 collaborative consumption websites for a sustainable Sydney
Experiments and innovations in collaborative consumption
Are modern products good enough to allow for collaborative consumption?
Collaborative Consumption book summary poster
More at http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com

Lisa Gansky: sharing is the future of business

Lisa Gansky from meshing on Vimeo.

Lisa Gansky at Compostmodern '11 from AIGA San Francisco on Vimeo.

http://lisagansky.com/

Videos: Examples of product service systems PSS

Video: Product Service System

PSS: Social bicycles

http://socialbicycles.com/

PSS: Toiletry refill stations

In the 1990s customers who bought bottled shampoo and conditioner at the Body Shop had the incentive of refilling those bottles in the shop, for less dollars because of the savings from reusing packaging. There were 900 Body Shop "refill bars" in 40 countries. However in 2002 this PSS was discontinued due to only 1% of customers participating.

The Enticements Soap Shop of Norwood in Adelaide allows customers to refill their own bottles.

In 2010 The Refill Shoppe in California revived the idea of consumer refilling of shampoo, conditioner, window cleaner, laundry detergent and other products.

In 2012 Use Me Products started their Filling Station in Maine where salon customers can refill their empty bottles of cleansers and moisturizers.

PSS: Fabric softener refill stations

Eziserv in-store dispensing systems for fabric softener are available in ASDA chain supermarkets in the UK and at Carrefour Shanghai. Their self-dispensing machines and specially designed 10x refillable pouches have received the "Innovation of the Year" honours during the 2010 UK Packaging Awards. However in 2012 the ASDA supermarket chain admitted that their trial was disappointing, as consumers rarely used the pouches more than 2x. The biggest barriers to mass consumer adoption are "inconvenience, mess and cost".

KegMama also had a concept for refillable pouches to be refilled at in-store dispensers.

Ecover of Belgium continues to offer their container refill service in independent health food stores and local cooperative shops. Washing up detergents, fabric conditioner, laundry detergent and multi-surface cleaner are available for refilling.

Sun and Earth Cleaner Living also has gravity-fed refill stations for laundry detergent and fabric softeners in various cooperative stores around the USA.

PSS: Milk Refill Stations

Fresh milk vending machines are available in many parts of the world:

Milk refill stations were around in German supermarkets since the 1980s.

In India villagers go to the token milk station with their stainless steel buckets for their morning's milk supply, such as this one from Mother Dairy.

The Italian vending machine manufacturer Prometea SrL has their products all over Europe.

Plenty of videos of these milk vending machines in use can be found here.

Oz Harvest

http://www.ozharvest.org/

Webtool: MEPSS

The MEPSS (Methodology for Product Service Systems) Sustainability Design-Orienting toolkit (SDO) orientates the design process towards sustainable system solutions, setting sustainability priorities and analysing sustainable best practice, using sustainable design orienting guidelines and checking and visualizing the improvements in relation to an existing reference system and its sustainability priorities.