المجلة الدولية للعلوم والتقنية

The impact of rapid growth in quantitative production and technological development of products in recent decades on the environment in all its aspects, where their manufacture, distribution, use and disposal require a lot of energy and resources and result in many impacts on the balance of natural systems. The problem of increasing carbon emissions and waste and increasing natural resource depletion and excessive energy consumption associated with product activities during all stages of the product's life cycle. All theses, was the reason behind writing and the desire to publish this paper, to be a simplified entry point for those who do not have sufficient knowledge of the concept of environmental and to raise awareness of the concept of eco-design and its impact on environmental aspects from engineers, researchers and those interested in environmental issues and for who involved in design and development processes. The paper presents a descriptive and inductive curriculum, preliminary study and input to eco-design, including: the definition of environmental design, its concepts, its characteristics, its importance, the tools and methodologies used to achieve it, as well as the challenges facing environmental design, through a study of some recent books and studies on environmental issues and environmental design which have been published over the last two decades. This paper also included an applied study on a Hommer household item (Hairdryer) product as a case that highlights the importance of eco-design through real results achieved through the application of tools and methodology that this paper relied on to improve a product that meets environmental requirements and reduces the negative impacts on the environment.