The Lasting Advantages of Disassembly Analysis: Benchmarking Applications in the Electronics Industry
When Ecodesign in the electronics industry took off in the early to mid nineties, disassembly analysis was one of the cornerstones on which it was built. By both industry and academia, design for Disassembly was seen as the preferred way of redesigning products for better environmental performance during the end-of-life stage of the life cycle. Main reason for this was probably the fact that research in this field was mainly initiated in mechanical engineering and machine design environments - areas where traditionally manufacturing research took place, and where many started to focus on demanufacturing as a (at the time) logical step towards environmentally sound products 1. Alternative (or supplementary) processing technologies such as shredding and separation for material recycling did not receive much attention until several years later when researchers realized that cost factors and stakeholder opinions played a role as well. Since this time, it has become clear to many people that from a total systems perspective, and without heavy subsidies, disassembly is often not a feasible option. In particular this applies to competitive, non-subsidized recycling markets. Because of these facts, in several Western European countries nowadays approximately half (on a weight basis) of all discarded electronic appliances are shredded and subsequently separated into various material streams. This has lead to the approach that the determination of end-oflife scenarios requires primarily a perspective based on the output of the recycling process rather than on the input of the process. It has been pointed out in Ram et al. 2 that for shredding and separation, end-of-life processing is about material streams and about separating or joining them, rather than about individual products.
Ab Stevels Casper Boks
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
410-416
2009-11-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）