ECO-QUEST, an ecodesign self audit tool for suppliers of the electronics industry

Author

Brink, Suzanne ; Diehl, Jan Carel ; Stevels, Ab

Author_Institution

Res. Lab. for Sustainable Product Innovation, Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

1998

fDate

4-6 May 1998

Firstpage

129

Lastpage

132

Abstract

ECO-QUEST for electronics, an ECOdesign QUESTionnaire for suppliers of the Electronics Industry, has been developed by the Delft Research Laboratory for Sustainable Product Innovation with support of some major manufacturers in the electronics industry. Basically it is a self-audit system to establish the relative environmental merit of goods and services of suppliers. The system has been organised in such a way that it does not take more than 30 minutes to come to a meaningful result. ECO-QUEST is a first and easy to understand introduction to more comprehensive environmental product analysis and is therefore also a basis for product improvements by Design for Environment

Keywords

design engineering; electronics industry; environmental factors; ECO-QUEST; design for environment; ecodesign questionnaire; ecodesign self audit tool; electronics industry; environmental product analysis; supplier; sustainable product innovation; Design engineering; Electronics industry; Electronics packaging; Industrial electronics; Internet; Laboratories; Manufacturing industries; Product design; Software tools; Technological innovation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and the Environment, 1998. ISEE-1998. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Oak Brook, IL

ISSN

1095-2020

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4295-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEE.1998.675044

Filename

675044