Is there environmental justice in the world?

摘要：

Very early on in the Nineties Philips Consumer Electronics managed to eliminate flame retardants from the housings of TVs and other electronic products. This was realized through ‘design for thermal balance’, that is, by avoiding “hot spots inside products. In this way elimination of the retardants was achieved while staying well inside the requirements for product safety. We were praised for such initiatives from NGOs like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth because traditional flame retardant plastics contain substances like brominated organics and antimony. Both of these substances rank very high on lists of potentially toxic materials or even outright hazardous materials. The elimination of flame retardants also added to the recyclability of the products; so called monomaterial plastics without additives recycle well.

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 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)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 229

在线出版日期: 2009-11-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）