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The telecom industry is moving towards a "greener" supply chain for manufacturing. As part of this greening, more emphasis is being placed on logistics management, remanufacturing and recycling of e-waste. There has been much publicity concerning the environmental benefits of remanufacturing electronic equipment and reselling it to customers in lieu of manufacturing new like-kind equipment. This paper will provide an assessment of the environmental benefits associated with remanufacturing network telecommunications equipment by employing lifecycle assessment (LCA) methodology and commercially available LCA software / database information on these products. The results will demonstrate the significant environmental benefits of remanufacturing network telecommunications equipment as an "eco-sustainable" alternative to manufacturing new equipment.

Estimation of the carbon footprint for telecommunications and electronics products has become a key design activity. Improvement in carbon footprint must be demonstrated consistently on all new products. Current methods of providing a useful estimate are laborious and time-consuming. A simplified approach is described, which uses basic statistical methods for estimation and promises significant improvements over existing methods.

As the information and communications technology (ICT) packaging: a novel Static Intercept* bag which is recyclable, offers 20 years of corrosion protection in Class 2 environments, and has permanent ESD protection; and traditional metalized shield bags, a common packaging option that is not recyclable (due to its aluminum content), must be landfilled, and offers time-limited ESD protection. The analysis was performed on the basis of several environmental impact criteria (e.g., greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions) in order to assess an overall "greener" and reliable solution due to packaging.The Static Intercept bag consists of a novel blend of polymers covalently bonded with a complementary

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