Title :
Life cycle assessment of a business telephone
Author :
Brickman, Larry ; Coulon, Remi ; Nehring, Ron ; Matthews, Ross ; McMullen, Craig ; Noble, Duncan ; Young, Steven B. ; Brady, Kevin ; Leah, Tim ; Whittle, Larry
Author_Institution :
Ecobalance Inc., Rockville, MD, USA
Abstract :
This joint study between Environment Canada and Northern Telecom aimed at carrying out an LCA on a manufactured product, the Nortel M7310 business telephone, in order to identify improvement strategies. The telephone, invented a century ago, by Alexander Graham Bell in Canada, is emblematic of a sophisticated but common everyday product. As such, this study provides an excellent demonstration of the benefits of design-for-environment. This paper describes the details of the methodology
Keywords :
design engineering; electronic equipment manufacture; environmental factors; telephone sets; Environment Canada; Nortel M7310; Northern Telecom; business telephone; design-for-environment; improvement strategies; life cycle assessment; manufactured product; Environmental management; Green products; Lakes; Manufactured products; Pollution measurement; Product design; Raw materials; Telecommunications; Telephony; Water pollution;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics and the Environment, 1998. ISEE-1998. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Oak Brook, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4295-X
DOI :
10.1109/ISEE.1998.675067
