Some proposal and examples of marking for easy sorting and separation for the purpose of DFD

Author

Shimamura, Kousuke ; Takahashi, Tetsuya ; Ueno, Kiyoshi ; Ishii, Katsunori ; Tanabe, Yoshihiro ; Mori, Hideki ; Iimura

Author_Institution

Mitsubishi Electr. Corp.

fYear

2005

Firstpage

190

Lastpage

191

Abstract

It has past 5years since the home appliance recycling law, had based on EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) policy, and had been enacted in Japan. This law has brought about Japan unexpected breakthrough. It is a qualitative change in DFE (Design For Environment), especially DFD (Design For Disassembly) of home electric appliance manufacturing design. This report introduces the "Recycling mark" putting on the new developed home electric appliances that is useful to recycling plant operators. And propose these marks spreading widely to all over the world for the recycle-oriented society

Keywords

design for disassembly; design for environment; domestic appliances; law; recycling; Japan; design for disassembly; design for environment; extended producer responsibility policy; home appliance recycling law; home electric appliance manufacturing design; recycling mark; recycling plant operator; Design for disassembly; Drilling; Fasteners; Home appliances; Lead; Printed circuits; Proposals; Recycling; Seminars; Sorting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2005. Eco Design 2005. Fourth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0081-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619199

Filename

1619199