Environmental Project, 960 – Environmental Assessment of Product Concept for Electronic Products

Environmental Assessment of Product Concept for Electronic Products

Preface

This report summarises the results from the project: ”Environmental Assessment of Product Concept”.

The Institute for Product Development has been project manager and three Danish electronic companies have participated. These are Tellabs Denmark A/S, Sauer-Danfoss ApS and Focon Electronic Systems A/S.

The results from this project have been integrated in the tool “A Designer's Guide to Eco-Conscious Design of Electrical & Electronic Equipment” (Eco-design Guide) [1], as this tool is already familiar to a great number of Danish electronic companies.

This tool integrates the results of several projects focusing on the environmental aspects of electrical and electronic equipment seen in a life cycle perspective. In addition to the present project, results from the following projects have been reported and disseminated with the Eco-design Guide:

Design principles and guidelines for environmentally conscious electrical- and electronic equipment [18]
Environmental Data for electronic components and parts [18]
Integration of recycling and disposal in the design of electrical- and electronic equipment [19]

The project was funded by the Danish EPA (Miljøstyrelsen) under the “Programme for cleaner products etc”.