Title :
Integrated Life Cycle Assessment of end of life of computers
Author :
Yadav, Sudeep ; Srivastava, Amitabh Kumar
Author_Institution :
Bundelkhand Inst. of Eng. & Technol., Jhansi, India
Abstract :
With the rapid growth in information and communication technology (ICT), there is increase in awareness of the environmental impacts related to the accelerating mass production, electricity use, and waste management of waste computers. India as become a emerging as hub for ICT as a consumer and supplier of e-products and market of computers has grown at an unprecedented pace in recent decade. This paper aims to describe the application of life cycle assessment (LCA) to investigate the environmental performance of Computers in Indian scenario. A desktop personal computer system has been selected to carry out the study. The waste management hierarchy is evaluated using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
Keywords :
computer peripheral equipment; environmental factors; life cycle costing; microcomputers; waste management; ICT; India; computer end-of-life; desktop personal computer system; e-product; electricity use; electronic product; environmental impact; information and communication technology; integrated life cycle assessment; mass production; waste computer; waste management; waste management hierarchy; Abstracts; Cadmium; Computational modeling; Computers; Recycling;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics Goes Green 2012+ (EGG), 2012
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4512-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-3-8396-0439-7
