Washing as a Service - Quantifying the Environmental Impact of a pay-per-use washing machine through Life Cycle Assessment

In order to live more sustainably on this planet, the world’s population needs to transform the current take-make dispose society towards a society with more maintainable consumption patterns and more sustainable business models. A way to achieve this, is a circular economy in which value is maintained within the product cycle, by sharing,...

Developing sustainable service design for a pay-per-use dryer

Although manufacturers, designers, product/service providers are innovating for more sustainable products and business models to promote sustainable consumption, there are still gaps between satisfactory user experience and real-sustainable use behaviours. HOMIE.B.V offers pay-per-use household appliances and services to stimulate sustainable...

An Internet of Things vision for Quooker

A strategy for Quooker to change its business model from offering a product to offering an outcome.

Pay-per-use business models as a driver for sustainable consumption: Evidence from the case of HOMIE

Pay-per-use business models where consumers pay for the unit of service (e.g. a wash) without gaining product ownership are often linked to increased environmental performance. Consumers would become more conscious about consumption patterns and companies would take responsibility for product life cycle issues. Such benefits can only be achieved...

Creating sustainable washing behaviour within a pay-per-use business model

This report focuses on the start-up company HOMIE B.V. (hereinafter refered to as “HOMIE”).<br/>HOMIE is a household appliance company, currently focused on washing machines, that provides its products through a pay-per-use model. Here the customer does not buy the product, but only pays a small fee for each time that the product is used.<br/>...