Title :
Lifecycle assessment at Xerox
Author :
Calkins, Patricia A.
Author_Institution :
Xerox Corp., USA
Abstract :
Product environmental life-cycle assessment is a tool for quantifying the total environmental impact of a product over its entire life-cycle. Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is rapidly becoming the recognized methodology for evaluating the environmental performance of products. LCA is already being used to develop product environmental label criteria and is expected in the next couple of years to be standardized through ISO 14000, become a requirement in government procurement practices, and even become a mandatory requirement in some European countries. This paper describes how, in response to this rapidly developing recognition of LCA, the Environment, Health, and Safety Organization of Xerox took the initiative to develop LCA capability within the company
Keywords :
ISO standards; environmental factors; product development; project engineering; standardisation; Europe; ISO 14000; Xerox; environmental impact; environmental label criteria; environmental performance; government procurement practices; life-cycle assessment; products; standardization; Assembly; Data mining; Government; Health and safety; Investments; Procurement; Raw materials; Transportation; Waste management; Waste materials;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics and the Environment, 1996. ISEE-1996., Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2950-3
DOI :
10.1109/ISEE.1996.501871
