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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ECODIM.2003.1322729
