Recyclability of High Volume Electronics
Philips Consumer Electronics recognises the need to pay attention to the recyclability of its products. Internal drivers for this need are the continuous improvement of the environmental quality, an increasing demand of customers to “take care of the environment and a contribution to the brand image. A major external driver is take back regulation in several member states of the European Union. For television sets, a lot of research has already been done in the field of Design For Recycling. For the rest of High Volume Electronics far less is known, especially for small brown good products (< 10 kg) such as audio equipment, telecommunication products, VCRs and car stereo. The recycling of this type of products is expected to be less Eco Efficient compared to professional and picture tube containing products. In particular when dismantling is needed to meet the required material recycling efficiency at labour costs in Western Europe (see Table 1). A better insight in the recyclability of these small brown good products without picture tubes, is therefore needed. The Eco Efficiency is in this project defined as the costs needed to recover the materials of a product. In case of take back regulation it can also been used to define meaningful criteria and as a decision support tool to evaluate take back schemes.
A.A.P.Ram J.M.H.Deckers A.L.N.Stevels
Design for Non Disassembly
国际会议
The 4th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology(第四届固体废物管理与技术国际会议)
北京
英文
436-445
2009-11-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）