Life-Cycle Assessment of Consumer Electronics: A review of methodological approaches

Andrae, Anders

doi:10.1109/mce.2015.2484639

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“…For S1 in Figure 2, it is surprising that the distribution of the VR headset (≈29% of the total score) is more important than the use stage (≈7%). The share of the production of the electronics at ≈36% is rather high, as expected for consumer electronics [6,7,15,16], and all other parts such as plastic and screws are ≈17%. The ICs (including 13% gold production and 12.5% Wafer Processing (WP) and final IC assembly) are 26% of the total score, which make them important but not dominant as hypothesized.…”

Section: Ilcd Evaluationsmentioning

confidence: 82%

Life Cycle Assessment of a Virtual Reality Device

Andrae

2017

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Virtual reality (VR) is one of the strongest trends for future communication systems. Considering the amounts of VR devices expected to be produced in the coming years, it is relevant to estimate their potential environmental impacts under certain conditions. For the first time, screening life cycle assessment (LCA) single score results are presented for a contemporary VR headset. The weighted results are dependent much on the source of the gold and the electric power used in production. Theoretically, using recycled gold for the VR subparts would be very beneficial seen from an environmental damage cost standpoint. Using low environmental impact electric power in the final assembly of the VR headset, in the final assembly of integrated circuits, and in the preceding wafer processing would also be worthwhile. Distribution of the final product is more pronounced than for other consumer electronics.

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Section: Ilcd Evaluationsmentioning

confidence: 82%

Life Cycle Assessment of a Virtual Reality Device

Andrae

2017

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“…The mass, environmental cost, and greenhouse gas emissions of one charger is around 0.05 kg, 1.4 JPY, and 0.036 kg CO 2 e, respectively [90]. Between 2016 and 2032, with business as usual, we estimate that 90 million tonnes of CO 2 e will be released and 2.8 million tonnes of charger e-waste will be generated.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…As shown in Figure 2 the production of chargers is not a major contributor to the environmental impact of a mobile device [39,90]. Still, its share of the impact could be reduced by >80%.…”

Section: Universal Chargers?mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Based on seven eco-metrics and cost-effective LCA methods/tools designers can be certain to implement eco-design in the product development process without hindrance of the ordinary design work or without being LCA experts. LCA tools, such as SimaPro, GaBi, and Environmental Impact Made Easy (EIME) [34], are popular [90]. Eco-rating-based LCA could also pose an alternative [91].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Here the sharp environmental requirement targets in design are documented for C: ‚ fine-tune and improve three of seven eco-metrics ‚ has >5% lower packaging volume than B ‚ has at least 10% better autonomy time in stand-by than B ‚ has better absolute LCA score than B. The LCA methodology used has been extensively documented elsewhere [39,90].…”

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Annually, it is estimated that about 4 billion units of consumer electronics for mobile communications are produced worldwide. This could lead to various ecological imbalances unless the design and disposal of the products are handled optimally. To illustrate how industry looks at and responds to the increasing social awareness, this article describes how sustainability is successfully implemented in practice at a large Chinese company, developing and producing various kinds of electronic products used for communication. It also describes how a variety of eco-innovations and business models contribute to reducing the environmental impact; for example, through increased recovery and recycling. A new kind of eco-design procedure is presented along with a new methodology which shows how a mobile phone gradually becomes more sustainable from one generation to the next. The issues with and setup of new eco-labeling schemes for mobile phones, eco-rating, is described in detail. The conclusion is that due to high competition between companies, the industry acts resourcefully and a lot is done to the save the ecological environment.

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Green IT and sustainable technology development: Bibliometric overview

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Fernández-Alemán

Gea

et al. 2019

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Green information technologies (GITs) constitute a field of research, whose objective is to reduce the environmental pollution caused by masses of people using and producing technology. This paper describes the search for literature related to GIT and technology sustainability in Scopus database. No restriction was imposed on the time period when carrying out the search. The data gathered revealed that the journal with the highest number of publications is Computer, and the most prolific author is Tomoya Enokido, with 45 publications. A total of 53.12% of the documents found in Scopus were Conference Paper. Although no statistically significant differences were detected, countries in the group with less CO2 kton emissions per inhabitant and less income per capita have a higher percentage of publications. The reduction of power consumption in the cloud data centers is a hot topic for future work, because the word cloud appeared in 9 out of the 10 most frequently cited papers.

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Life-Cycle Assessment of Consumer Electronics: A review of methodological approaches

Cited by 28 publications

References 32 publications

Life Cycle Assessment of a Virtual Reality Device

Life Cycle Assessment of a Virtual Reality Device

Practical Eco-Design and Eco-Innovation of Consumer Electronics—the Case of Mobile Phones

Green IT and sustainable technology development: Bibliometric overview

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