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E-waste, the CO2 impact of the IT industry and increasing demands for corporate social responsibility are the driving forces behind the ??Green IT?? boom. Tools such as Environmental labelling of IT equipment and other claims to environmental preferability are guiding consumers to more ecologically sound choices of IT equipment. At the same time, consumers have an endless demand for high performance...
The authors introduce their latest fruits focusing on the research of suitable treatment technology for scrap computer under present situation of China, and a case of Suzhou pilot project is constructed. The newly designed methods or combination techniques in this pilot project include: the manual-assisted dismantling procedure; the method and special equipment for separating funnel and panel glass...
Computer power management features - standard in Windows and Macintosh operating systems - place monitors and computers (CPU, hard drive, etc.) into low-power ldquosleep modesrdquo after a period of inactivity. Simply touching the mouse or keyboard ldquowakesrdquo the computer and monitor in seconds. While monitors are often configured to sleep, unfortunately fewer than 10% of US-based computers are...
Because of the underdeveloped market for used computers, a large number of functional systems are going to waste. A significant barrier to the development of a market is the inability to communicate the worth of a computer. In order to overcome this barrier, a system for determining the value through monitoring of the conditions under which it is used is suggested. This system uses sensors already...
This paper addresses the efforts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to implement electronics stewardship (ES) objectives that deal with all three lifecycle phases: acquisition, operation, and end-of-life. A program analyst assessed USDA compliance with Federal ES requirements in 2007 and found that it was compliant in some respects and needing additional effort to comply in other areas....
Corporations and institutions, including the electronics manufacturing and computer services sectors have become concerned with their impacts on climate change and are participating in carbon footprint assessment and climate management discussions. Existing carbon footprint protocols classify carbon footprint into tiered ldquoScopesrdquo: direct emissions as ldquoScope 1rdquo, emissions from direct...
This analysis compares e-commerce versus traditional retail systems energy use and greenhouse gas emissions through a case study of a product chosen to represent the retail process. We conclude that e-commerce has lower energy use and GHG emissions for our case study.
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