Balancing the life cycle impacts of notebook computers: Taiwan's experience

Lu, Li‐Teh; Wernick, Iddo K.; Hsiao, Teng‐Yuan; Yu, Yue-Hwa; Yang, Ya-Mei; Ma, Hwong‐Wen

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2005.12.010

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“…However, our study reports that in the EPR regime, products that are with the second hand dealers are first to be absorbed to the recycling state. Experiences from Taiwan (Lua et al, 2006) clearly indicate that that the prices offered by the second hand market are much higher than the collection subsidy offered by the Taiwan WEEE system. This means that any form of recycling fund needs to dynamically evolve so as to create a level playing field and subsidize the formalized processes.…”

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An investigation into e-waste flows in India

Dwivedy

Mittal

2012

Journal of Cleaner Production

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An investigation into e-waste flows in India

Dwivedy

Mittal

2012

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…), these management options may not represent the real situation in developing countries, where the management of end-of-life electrical and electronic products is dominated by the informal recycling sectors. Moreover, the management options considered in these LCA studies were based on researchers' assumptions [16,17,18,19], scenario development [20,21] and/or based on Ecoinvent database model that represent the-state-of-theart electrical and electronic products waste management in Europe [22,23,24].…”

Section: Current Lca Application On Management Of End-of-life Electrimentioning

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Management of End-of-Life Electrical and Electronic Products: The Challenges and the Potential Solutions for Management Enhancement in Developing Countries Context

Ismail¹,

Hanafiah²

2017

Acta sci. Malays

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The accelerating disposal rate of electrical and electronic products made the research on management of end-of-life electrical and electronic products becoming an emerging research in recent years. For developed countries, several regulations and policies were designed and introduced to improve the management of end-of-life electrical and electronic products. In contrast, in developing countries they are still lacking on the implementation of such regulations and policies. Moreover, the challenges on management of end-of life electrical and electronic products faced by developing countries are differed to developed countries. Therefore, this paper aimed to provide a recommendation to improve the management of end-of-life electrical and electronic products in developing countries. To achieve the objective, this study provides an overview on the challenges faced by developing countries in management of end-of-life electrical and electronic products, followed by the suggestions on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as an alternative mechanism to improve current management practices for end-of-life electrical and electronic products in developing countries. The challenges to apply LCA on current management practices in developing countries were discussed and future recommendation to enhance the management of end-of-life electrical and electronic products through well-established life cycle assessment (LCA) were made.

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“…Again, the study by Andrae and Andersen [26] is used as a starting point in order to compare the results from the current study with other studies of laptop computers. In this study, apart from the original ecoinvent dataset, GWP results for four further datasets of laptop computers (taken from [43,40,44,45]) are reported and compared to each other. A comparison of these values reported in [26] with the results of the present study is shown in Figure 3 (top, left, line "original") over the entire life cycle of such a device.…”

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Grey Energy and Environmental Impacts of ICT Hardware

Hischier

Coroamă

Schien

et al. 2014

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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PostprintThis is the accepted version of a chapter published in ICT Innovations for Sustainability. Citation for the original published chapter:Hischier, R., Coroama, V., Schien, D., Ahmadi Achachlouei, M. (2015) Grey Energy and Environmental Impacts of ICT Hardware. Abstract. Direct energy consumption of ICT hardware is only "half the story." In order to get the "whole story," energy consumption during the entire life cycle has to be taken into account. This chapter is a first step toward a more comprehensive picture, showing the "grey energy" (i.e., the overall energy requirements) as well as the releases (into air, water, and soil) during the entire life cycle of exemplary ICT hardware devices by applying the life cycle assessment method. The examples calculated show that a focus on direct energy consumption alone fails to take account of relevant parts of the total energy consumption of ICT hardware as well as the relevance of the production phase. As a general tendency, the production phase is more and more important the smaller (and the more energy-efficient) the devices are. When in use, a tablet computer is much more energy-efficient than a desktop computer system with its various components, so its production phase has a much greater relative importance. Accordingly, the impacts due to data transfer when using Internet services are also increasingly relevant the smaller the end-user device is, reaching up to more than 90% of the overall impact when using a tablet computer.

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Balancing the life cycle impacts of notebook computers: Taiwan's experience

Cited by 55 publications

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An investigation into e-waste flows in India

An investigation into e-waste flows in India

Management of End-of-Life Electrical and Electronic Products: The Challenges and the Potential Solutions for Management Enhancement in Developing Countries Context

Grey Energy and Environmental Impacts of ICT Hardware

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