DocumentCode
3302034
Title
What we can do for a sustainable society: a telephone directory case study
Author
Takahashi, Kazue L. ; Nakamura, Juo ; Kunioka, Tatsuya
Author_Institution
NTT Energy & Environ. Syst. Labs., NTT Corp., Tokyo, Japan
fYear
2003
fDate
8-11 Dec. 2003
Firstpage
527
Lastpage
528
Abstract
The environmental impact of a Japanese telephone directory was studied using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method. Most telephone directories are published, delivered and collected by the telephone company; this makes their life cycle unlike that of other magazines. We analyzed several environmental burdens, such as carbon dioxide (CO/sub 2/) emission and nitrogen oxide (NO/sub x/) emission, and evaluated several environmental effects. Most of the environmental burdens were caused during the paper production process.
Keywords
environmental factors; paper products; printing industry; recycling; reliability; telecommunication services; CO/sub 2/ emission; Japanese telephone directory; NO/sub x/ emission; carbon dioxide emission; environmental burdens; life cycle assessment; magazines; nitrogen oxide emission; paper production process; telephone company; Communication system operations and management; Environmental factors; Reliability;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2003. EcoDesign '03. 2003 3rd International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Tokyo, Japan
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8590-x
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECODIM.2003.1322729
Filename
1322729
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