Product environmental care, a praxis-based system uniting ISO 14001, ISO 14062, IPP, EEE and ecolabel elements

Author

Stevels, Ab

Author_Institution

Design for Sustainability Lab., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

58

Abstract

Approaches, addressing environmental care in products have been assessed according to requirements which were derived on the basis of practical experiences when implementing Ecodesign/Design for Environment in the electronic industry. Systems examined include ISO standard 14001, ISO technical report (draft) 14062, the European EEE (Environmental conformity initiative) and IPP approaches and ecolabels. None of the approaches as such fulfils all requirements in a satisfactory way. However, if elements with the best scores are combined into one system a very good basis for further tool development is created

Keywords

ISO standards; design for environment; product development; Design for Environment; Ecodesign; Environmental conformity initiative; IPP; ISO 14001; ISO 14062; ecolabel; electronic industry; praxis-based system; product environmental care; Consumer electronics; Design methodology; Electronics industry; Environmental management; ISO standards; Instruments; Legislation; Recycling; Standardization; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and the Environment, 2001. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

ISSN

1095-2020

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6655-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEE.2001.924501

Filename

924501