Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/EGG.2016.7829857
C. Cole, T. Cooper, A. Gnanapragasam
Discarded electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) is a rapidly growing waste stream. This has increased, in part, because advances in technology have contributed to shorter product lifetimes. As such, waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has received increasing attention from policy makers. Previous research has revealed the large proportion of end-of-life consumer electronics disposed of through residual waste collections and destined for landfill disposal or incineration. This represents a missed opportunity for extending their lifetime by facilitating recovery for repair or reuse. This paper outlines current policy context, explores routes for end-of-life EEE in the UK and examines opportunities for product life extension through reuse. A series of semi-structured interviews were undertaken to determine if current collection system for end-of-life equipment in the UK adequately encourages increased repair and reuse in line with UK Government's waste reduction programme, or whether there is excessive focus on recycling. The findings are reported to discuss if UK policy framework is adequate to embed legislative requirements and improve current practices and whether the current system promotes awareness and understanding by householders sufficient to encourage behaviour change.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/EGG.2016.7829848
Margarida Gama, C. Herrmann, Tamara Fisher
Circular economy is a concept describing an industrial economy, which produces no wastes and no emissions through its design, considering all the phases of the life cycle of products. It has gained worldwide importance in the latest years and the European Commission adopted an ambitious Circular Economy Package, including revised legislation proposals ‘to stimulate Europe's transition towards a circular economy, aiming to boost global competitiveness, foster sustainable economic growth and generate new jobs’.
{"title":"Circular economy in the electronics sector: A holistic perspective","authors":"Margarida Gama, C. Herrmann, Tamara Fisher","doi":"10.1109/EGG.2016.7829848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EGG.2016.7829848","url":null,"abstract":"Circular economy is a concept describing an industrial economy, which produces no wastes and no emissions through its design, considering all the phases of the life cycle of products. It has gained worldwide importance in the latest years and the European Commission adopted an ambitious Circular Economy Package, including revised legislation proposals ‘to stimulate Europe's transition towards a circular economy, aiming to boost global competitiveness, foster sustainable economic growth and generate new jobs’.","PeriodicalId":187870,"journal":{"name":"2016 Electronics Goes Green 2016+ (EGG)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125023599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/EGG.2016.7829832
A. Amato, L. Rocchetti, Viviana Fonti, T. A. Atia, P. Altimari, E. Moscardini, L. Toro, F. Pagnanelli, F. Beolchini
In 2014, the European Union defined a list of 20 raw materials critical for economic importance and high supply risk. The aim of this work is to present the main results achieved within the EU-FP7 Project HydroWEEE-Demo dealing with the recovery of indium and cobalt, metals included in such European list, from LCD scraps and end of life Li-ion batteries, respectively. A complete indium recovery was achieved carrying out an acidic leaching, followed by a zinc cementation. Cobalt was extracted from the electrodic powder according to the following main operations: leaching (by acid reducing conditions), primary purification (by precipitation of metal impurities), solvent extraction with D2EPHA (for the removal of metal impurities), solvent extraction with Cyanex 272 (for the separation of cobalt from nickel), cobalt recovery (by precipitation as cobalt hydroxide). Co products with 95% purity were obtained by implementation of the solvent extraction with D2EHPA and Cyanex 272.
{"title":"Recovery of critical metals from LCDs and Li-ion batteries","authors":"A. Amato, L. Rocchetti, Viviana Fonti, T. A. Atia, P. Altimari, E. Moscardini, L. Toro, F. Pagnanelli, F. Beolchini","doi":"10.1109/EGG.2016.7829832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EGG.2016.7829832","url":null,"abstract":"In 2014, the European Union defined a list of 20 raw materials critical for economic importance and high supply risk. The aim of this work is to present the main results achieved within the EU-FP7 Project HydroWEEE-Demo dealing with the recovery of indium and cobalt, metals included in such European list, from LCD scraps and end of life Li-ion batteries, respectively. A complete indium recovery was achieved carrying out an acidic leaching, followed by a zinc cementation. Cobalt was extracted from the electrodic powder according to the following main operations: leaching (by acid reducing conditions), primary purification (by precipitation of metal impurities), solvent extraction with D2EPHA (for the removal of metal impurities), solvent extraction with Cyanex 272 (for the separation of cobalt from nickel), cobalt recovery (by precipitation as cobalt hydroxide). Co products with 95% purity were obtained by implementation of the solvent extraction with D2EHPA and Cyanex 272.","PeriodicalId":187870,"journal":{"name":"2016 Electronics Goes Green 2016+ (EGG)","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125046472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/EGG.2016.7829866
A. Hu, L. H. Huang, Yen-Ling Chang
After decades of developing corporate sustainability in Taiwan, the ICT sector has assumed the most important role in promoting corporate sustainability. Of the 13 corporations in the DJSI, nine are in the ICT sector. The corporate sustainability programs of such companies should be reevaluated in terms of their contributions to global sustainable development. This study analyzes whether the practices of Taiwanese ICT firms truly respond to global sustainability trends. This study is divided into two parts. First, an evaluating framework based on SDGs is developed using the documents published by SDG Compass and SDG Industry Matrix. The framework is identified from the aforementioned analysis, followed by the application of context analysis. The 9 corporate sustainability reports published by Taiwanese ICT sector firms of DJSI members in 2015 and 2016 are selected from the CSRone platform, which is a local database for sustainability reports in Taiwan. The sustainable actions in the 9 sustainability reports are subsequently assessed by the evaluating framework to demonstrate the corporations' efforts in responding to global sustainable goals. The outcomes of this research provide Taiwanese ICT sector firms with a broad understanding of global sustainable trends and integrate novel concepts into the decision-making process. This study also improves the sustainability of corporate activities or projects for the benefit of global citizens.
{"title":"Assessing corporate sustainability of the ICT sector in Taiwan on the basis of UN Sustainable Development Goals","authors":"A. Hu, L. H. Huang, Yen-Ling Chang","doi":"10.1109/EGG.2016.7829866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EGG.2016.7829866","url":null,"abstract":"After decades of developing corporate sustainability in Taiwan, the ICT sector has assumed the most important role in promoting corporate sustainability. Of the 13 corporations in the DJSI, nine are in the ICT sector. The corporate sustainability programs of such companies should be reevaluated in terms of their contributions to global sustainable development. This study analyzes whether the practices of Taiwanese ICT firms truly respond to global sustainability trends. This study is divided into two parts. First, an evaluating framework based on SDGs is developed using the documents published by SDG Compass and SDG Industry Matrix. The framework is identified from the aforementioned analysis, followed by the application of context analysis. The 9 corporate sustainability reports published by Taiwanese ICT sector firms of DJSI members in 2015 and 2016 are selected from the CSRone platform, which is a local database for sustainability reports in Taiwan. The sustainable actions in the 9 sustainability reports are subsequently assessed by the evaluating framework to demonstrate the corporations' efforts in responding to global sustainable goals. The outcomes of this research provide Taiwanese ICT sector firms with a broad understanding of global sustainable trends and integrate novel concepts into the decision-making process. This study also improves the sustainability of corporate activities or projects for the benefit of global citizens.","PeriodicalId":187870,"journal":{"name":"2016 Electronics Goes Green 2016+ (EGG)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129521360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/EGG.2016.7829810
K. Schischke, M. Proske, N. Nissen, K. Lang
Currently a range of modular smartphones is emerging, including the Fairphone 2, Puzzlephone, Google's Project ARA, RePhone, LG's G5 and others. In an industry of perceived short product cycles a modular design concept might become crucial for longer product lifetimes. The paper provides an overview on latest product developments and assesses these against environmental criteria, including longevity, durability, upgradeability, repairability and Design for Recycling and Reuse. Modular product design however is not necessarily the most sustainable design option. Modularity first of all means inevitably more material consumption, as additional sub-housing and universal connectors are required, partly also a larger total product volume to allow for incorporation of the maximum potential configuration and anticipated future technologies. This has to pay off through a significantly longer use of individual devices and modules. It depends furthermore on the user, if the intended replacement of broken modules by new ones helps to keep whole devices in use much longer or if the user just replaces individual modules much more frequently to keep pace with latest technology features.
{"title":"Modular products: Smartphone design from a circular economy perspective","authors":"K. Schischke, M. Proske, N. Nissen, K. Lang","doi":"10.1109/EGG.2016.7829810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EGG.2016.7829810","url":null,"abstract":"Currently a range of modular smartphones is emerging, including the Fairphone 2, Puzzlephone, Google's Project ARA, RePhone, LG's G5 and others. In an industry of perceived short product cycles a modular design concept might become crucial for longer product lifetimes. The paper provides an overview on latest product developments and assesses these against environmental criteria, including longevity, durability, upgradeability, repairability and Design for Recycling and Reuse. Modular product design however is not necessarily the most sustainable design option. Modularity first of all means inevitably more material consumption, as additional sub-housing and universal connectors are required, partly also a larger total product volume to allow for incorporation of the maximum potential configuration and anticipated future technologies. This has to pay off through a significantly longer use of individual devices and modules. It depends furthermore on the user, if the intended replacement of broken modules by new ones helps to keep whole devices in use much longer or if the user just replaces individual modules much more frequently to keep pace with latest technology features.","PeriodicalId":187870,"journal":{"name":"2016 Electronics Goes Green 2016+ (EGG)","volume":"319 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122806278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/EGG.2016.7829875
Tsubasa Naito, N. Mishima
This paper discusses a method to quantitatively evaluate the importance of functional and visual design. Using smartphones as a case study, the paper proposes a procedure to evaluate both functional and visual design. The paper applies pair comparison to know the relative importance of 4 visual design specifications that are “color,” “texture,” “thickness” and “customizability” which means variety of optional parts such as cases, headsets, protection sheets etc., and one functional design specification which is “battery capacity.” Then, the result of our previous survey regarding relative importance of 5 functional design specifications was integrated. The result showed that in smartphones, functional design specifications are basically important than visual design specifications. But, the difference with “memory size” and “customizability” was small. This fact suggested that by focusing on providing various optional parts rather than increasing memory size, it can be possible to enhance product value without increasing environmental impact.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/EGG.2016.7829841
M. Schlummer, Fabian Wolff, Andreas Mäurer
Waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) contains a series of valuable substances, which are used as secondary raw materials. There are however some WEEE components that are currently not recycled due to technical and economic hurdles. This paper presents results indicating that pre-treatment of mixed shred of WEEE plastics by x-ray transition (XRT) and density sorting enables an effective pre-concentration of the target polymers ABS and PC/ABS. XRT provides a fraction of halogen free polymers, whereas a sink and float approach enriches ABS and PC/ABS further to a purity of 60 – 90%. Subsequent purifying of the target polymer was performed by the solvent-based CreaSolv® Process. FT-IR spectroscopy identifies the product clearly as ABS and PC/ABS. Other material characteristics of recycled PC/ABS are well comparable to virgin and conventionally recycled grades of PC/ABS.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/EGG.2016.7829874
Sheng-Lung Lin, Jian-yo Wu, S. Huang
This paper focuses on the investigation of a business model in the BoP markets. Combing the scenario analysis, the life cycle assessment is conducted in the study. After the simulation, the results indicate that the major contributors of environmental impacts are use (75.6%) and disposal of (24.2%) stages. The contribution of transportation and collection stages is less than 0.2%. The Fossil fuel depletion and the Respiratory Inorganic potential were the most significant environmental impact categories after normalization and weighting based on Eco-indicator 99 method. It concludes that the hot environmental spot of a mobile phone occurs in the use of phone. The outcomes could provide important information for promoting BoP business models, including the design of products due to the consideration of sustainability.
{"title":"A life cycle assessment of waste management: A case study of used ICT products sold in the BoP markets","authors":"Sheng-Lung Lin, Jian-yo Wu, S. Huang","doi":"10.1109/EGG.2016.7829874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EGG.2016.7829874","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the investigation of a business model in the BoP markets. Combing the scenario analysis, the life cycle assessment is conducted in the study. After the simulation, the results indicate that the major contributors of environmental impacts are use (75.6%) and disposal of (24.2%) stages. The contribution of transportation and collection stages is less than 0.2%. The Fossil fuel depletion and the Respiratory Inorganic potential were the most significant environmental impact categories after normalization and weighting based on Eco-indicator 99 method. It concludes that the hot environmental spot of a mobile phone occurs in the use of phone. The outcomes could provide important information for promoting BoP business models, including the design of products due to the consideration of sustainability.","PeriodicalId":187870,"journal":{"name":"2016 Electronics Goes Green 2016+ (EGG)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114276932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/EGG.2016.7829854
P. Chancerel, M. Marwede, F. Mathieux, L. T. Peiró
The objectives of ‘feasibility study for setting-up reference values to support the calculation of recyclability/recoverability rates of electr(on)ic products’ commissioned by the Joint Research Centre are to define key harmonized methodological aspects to develop reference values on recycling and recovery rates (RR rates) of materials and components for electr(on)ic products to calculate recyclability and recoverability rates of products, and to assess the benefits and limitations associated to the development of such reference values. To quantify the recycling and recovery rates of materials and components, the focus was set on the use of data on RR rates compiled to comply with the reporting requirements of the WEEE directive and combined with analyses of the input composition. The frame set by the European Waste Framework Directive and the Cenelec EN and TS 50625 standards served as a methodological basis to define the requirements on the data. The methodology was tested on two case studies. The development of the reference values using a harmonized scope of the calculation and harmonized methods would provide common data reflecting the economically running treatment processes used by Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) treatment operators for calculating recyclability and recoverability rates of products. The calculated recyclability and recoverability rates of products can be used as one of the indicators of the material efficiency of a product, and integrated into further environmental assessments. The method provides new opportunities to link product design and recycling, as well as to enhance the dialogue between the stakeholders.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/EGG.2016.7829816
Eleonora Fiore, P. Tamborrini, M. Norese
Although competitors from low-cost countries are pushing manufacturers to lowering prices and replace the production [1] at the expense of quality, the definition of new scenarios through research and development seems the best way to succeed. This paper seeks to explain why companies should invest in the redesign of household appliances when there is a potential improvement in the sustainability of the product. This work considers home appliances investigating their disassembly, the updating of components and the management of end of life, combined with their connectivity and the communication with the final user. This research develops a multi-criteria model to select among the major appliances the most suitable to redesign, providing a ranking of alternatives. The analysis is based on the potential improvement on eco-design of products, determined on eight relevant criteria about sustainability and relationship between users and appliances. This study attempts to prove that business models based on Multi Criteria Decision Aid (MCDA) methodology, combined with two design approaches to sustainability, are able to move from linear to circular economy. Waste management and product refurbishment - through Design by Components focused on product maintenance and replacement of its parts - are, in fact, key aspects to achieve valuable results. The paper proposes an analysis of this decision process, synthesizing the most critical aspects and the result of a Multi Criteria Decision Aid intervention [2].
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