Integrated Life Cycle Assessment of end of life of computers

Author

Yadav, Sudeep ; Srivastava, Amitabh Kumar

Author_Institution

Bundelkhand Inst. of Eng. & Technol., Jhansi, India

fYear

2012

fDate

9-12 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

With the rapid growth in information and communication technology (ICT), there is increase in awareness of the environmental impacts related to the accelerating mass production, electricity use, and waste management of waste computers. India as become a emerging as hub for ICT as a consumer and supplier of e-products and market of computers has grown at an unprecedented pace in recent decade. This paper aims to describe the application of life cycle assessment (LCA) to investigate the environmental performance of Computers in Indian scenario. A desktop personal computer system has been selected to carry out the study. The waste management hierarchy is evaluated using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

Keywords

computer peripheral equipment; environmental factors; life cycle costing; microcomputers; waste management; ICT; India; computer end-of-life; desktop personal computer system; e-product; electricity use; electronic product; environmental impact; information and communication technology; integrated life cycle assessment; mass production; waste computer; waste management; waste management hierarchy; Abstracts; Cadmium; Computational modeling; Computers; Recycling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics Goes Green 2012+ (EGG), 2012

Conference_Location

Berlin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4512-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-3-8396-0439-7

Type

conf

Filename

6360443