Environmental consideration in product design

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Environmental consideration in product design
Sustainable Development

• proactive commitment of companies, through

• Eco-design practice

• Generalisation of ISO14001

• Control of end-of-life processing

Target reduce impacts on environment
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Whats the context ?
Obtain a reasonable balance between these various
criteria
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Eco-design
a global approach
which necessitates tools

• Green Guide with guidelines

• Prohibited materials list

Cadmium,
CrVI,
Lead,
PolyChloroBiphenyl,...

• Software to establish LCA (Life Cycle Assessment)

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Green Guide

• Following guidelines take place in Green Guide

• optimisation of raw material consumption

• choice of materials

• end-of-life recovery

• energy consumption

These are general guidelines
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Two products, two examples of Eco-design
Special work on

• performances vs weight

• connections

• transport

• dismantlability

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Two products, two examples of Eco-design

• gain of over 50 on the volume

• gain of 70 on raw materials for electronic board

• better dismantlability

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Legislation

• Two European directives are concerning
  Professional Electrical and Electronic Equipment

- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
- Restriction Of the use of certain Hazardous
Substances (ROHS)
They have to be transposed in French law
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Legislation

• Legislation in force in France

• companies have responsibilities concerning

• hazardous waste

• raw waste

Most of electrical and electronic equipment can
be processed and recovered
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The ELEN experience

• a pilot operation

• an observation of renovation, maintenance and
  installation dismantling projects

Results

• good assessment

• data usable for Eco-design practice

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End of life processing

• The manufacturers offers

• gas recovery on site, if necessary

• transport

• electrical equipment dismantling

• supplying of a certificate as proof

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Conclusions

• The taking account of environmental issues is a
  reality for French manufacturers

• Environmental issues a general concern

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