Snowboard
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Executive Summary
Stakeholders
Consumer
Retailer
Manufacturer
Shipping
Use Study
Mechanical Function
Product Parts
Exploded Assembly
Bill of Materials
Table: Components of Snowboard
Design for Manufacture and Assembly
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
Design for Environment
A snowboard has very low greenhouse gas emissions in use. The only emissions associated with use are the additional emissions from transport, which we consider negligable if transported inside a vehicle, but could be significant if transported externally as for example on the roof of a car which would add drag.
We assume that the main emmisions of greenhouse gas will be caused by the manufacture of the snowboard. To estimate the amount of this we used the EIO-LCA method. This gave a total of manufacturing emissions as 0.25t CO2 considering an average price of 400 dollars for a board.
However the method is very unprecise in our case as snowboards only represents a fraction of the sporting and athletic goods manufacturing sector, so it represents the average emmisions of all sports equipment which could vary enormously from one product to another.