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The electronics industry is a dynamic sector in which the manufacturing process undergoes continual innovation. With the lifecycle of some products measured in months rather than years, new equipment, chemicals and processes are being introduced to the manufacturing and development fabricators on an ongoing basis, as are new product designs, which are themselves platforms for changing software and...
There is increasing market and regulatory pressure on responsible management of end-of-life electronics. In Europe, the EuP Directive (DIRECTIVE 2005/32/EC) requires manufacturers to perform assessment of the environmental impacts of their products throughout their lifecycle and the EU WEEE directive encourages manufacturers to design products which facilitate easy dismantling and recovery, in particular...
Materials selection decisions exhibit great influence on the environmental performance of firms through their impact on processing technology, product form, and supply chain configuration. Consequently, materials dictate a product's environmental profile via the burden associated with extraction and refining, transformation from material to product, product performance characteristics during use,...
A schematic method to characterize the human health impact of toxic chemicals is presented. This schematic method uses a streamlined three-tiered hierarchy process which includes intake, toxicity and persistence of a chemical release for its impact characterization. The human health impact of a chemical is represented by its position in a two-dimensional characterization plot, which enables the benchmarking...
Extensive interviews with electronic product recyclers and refurbishers identified numerous ways that the design of electronic products could be improved to enhance the performance of EoL systems in financial and resource conservation terms. Some design changes can be applied by manufacturers to today's products, some require collaborative industry initiatives, and some are transformative of the ICT...
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