BRING OUT YOUR DEAD-Solutions to electronic waste （4）

Published:2011/8/14 22:38:00 Author:Phyllis From:SeekIC

By Chris Bayliss

And West again..

Absorbing the cost of recycling the product may not prove to be a popular option with the European consumer. Avoiding added cost means returning to the drawing board and thinking about the design process.













All electronics products begin their life as a design. An integral part of this is the product life cycle. Traditionally the life cycle of an electronics product ended at the consumer. Legislation and corporate social responsibility now means manufacturers look at the impact of their product from the manufacturing process through to product disposal. To make electronics recycling work, all parts of the industry need to be involved. Realistically, not all companies have the funds or the resources available to spend time looking at issues such as recyclability and toxicity of their products. However, over recent years computer software has been developed to address this issue. Examples include two more utilities from Fraunhofer’s IZM/EE Toolbox: the Toxic Potentials Indicator (TPI) (Figures 5, 6, 7) and the Recycling Potential Indicator (Figure 8). Just before printing this article, Fraunhofer Institute kindly advised that an updated and extended version of the IZM/EE Toolbox documentation is due for release by the end of this year.

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