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The product-related assessment of progress towards crucial environmental aspects is important to steer the process of eco-innovation. Indicators must be simple and easy to apply, but they must give reliably information about the status and condition of a system to the involved stakeholders. Indicators must hence be selected aspects from a complex system. The forthcoming paper addresses this demands...
Planned obsolescence has recently been a common allegation to manufacturers, but proof apart from isolated cases is missing. This paper analyses the situation for smartphones, looks at use- and lifetime of smartphones and the underlying reasons for their obsolescence. Surveys show that a majority of consumers believes in “planned obsolescence” as a fact on the market and would like to have more durable...
Engineers are confronted with difficulties when it comes to the inclusion of sustainability aspects into the design process of electronic devices. Due to the specific nature and complexity of material composition, process flows and data availability there is a need for electronics-specific methodologies for environmental assessment. These need to allow for easy adaptation in all stages of the design...
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