Sustainable Manufacturing of Sports Products

摘要: Sports products include sports equipment (eg tennis racquets, golf clubs, bicycles), sports apparel and sports footwear. Today, new sports products are rapidly developed and brought to market to accommodate the changing needs, personal preferences, fashion trends and socioeconomic developments (such as obesity and the aging population, increased purchasing ability in developing countries). This has resulted in a number of distinctive trends, including increased volumes of production; distributed manufacturing across different geographical locations; increased levels of design customisation; and shorter life cycles of sports products. Furthermore, these trends have led to increased materials usage, disposal rates and waste. As a consequence, sporting goods manufacturers are faced today with the need to adopt a more comprehensive corporate social responsibility model as the prevailing model across their …