The development of Taiwan´s Toxic Potential Indicator (TPI)

This paper presents a study of evaluating environmental impacts in Taiwan´s electronics product manufacturing. The focus of impact evaluation is on the toxic potential of electronics product. The computational structure of Toxic Potential Indicator (TPI) developed by Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) was used to evaluate the toxic potential of electronics product in Taiwan. The difficulties and problems in implementing the computing TPI value in Taiwan was identified and discussed. Some adjusting approach is proposed in this paper to overcome it. The proposed procedures and evaluated results can be used as the basis for environmentally conscious electronics product design in Taiwan.