Development of recyclability evaluation tool

Author

Oyasato, Naohiko ; Kobayashi, Hideki ; Haruki, Kazuhito

Author_Institution

Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp., Kanagawa, Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

303

Lastpage

308

Abstract

In this paper, a new method of recyclability evaluation is proposed and an embedded tool to apply it is also presented. In this method, the recyclability of a product is given by summing up recyclabilities of all units to which the product is manually disassembled. The recyclability of a unit is calculated, if all names and amounts of materials of which the unit is composed are known. The recyclability of disassembled unit, consisted of multiple numbers, is judged by the grounds of tramp element in metals and compatibility of plastics. Recyclability of a long-lifetime product can be estimated from recyclabilities of units, which are modeled as probabilistically distributed degradation of materials

Keywords

design for environment; production engineering computing; recycling; degradation of materials; environmental design; environmentally conscious products; long-lifetime product; recyclability evaluation; sustainable society; Consumer products; Design for disassembly; Manufacturing industries; Plastics; Product design; Production; Prototypes; Recycling; Research and development; Thermal degradation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2001. Proceedings EcoDesign 2001: Second International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1266-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/.2001.992370

Filename

992370