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Eco-Design Multi-Attribute Environmental
Standards for Electronics iNEMI Sustainability Summit
Wayne Rifer, Green Electronics CouncilSeptember 2008
Outline• The Demand for Product
Environmental Information • The Standard Landscape• EPEAT – An Overview
– Marketplace Successes– What’s next?
• The Emerging Standard Context
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Institutional vs. Consumer Purchasing• Institutional purchasing, especially
governmental, is structured and policy driven• Consumer purchasing is impulse driven• U.S. government purchasing represents 20
percent of the GNP• Institutional purchasing represents the major
demand for product environmental information– Consumer demand may be developing
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Government Purchasing History• U.S. Federal government purchases 7% of all
computers worldwide.• Began including Energy Star requirements in
mid-1990s • Currently, 95% of monitors, 80% of
computers, and 99% of printers are Energy Star compliant
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Ways of Providing Environmental Information
• Certified Conformance to a Standard ISO Type I
• Self-Declaration of Attributes ISO Type II
• Report Card with LCA Data ISO Type III
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Design Guidance Standards
• Standards to encourage life cycle thinking and standardize “what’s important”– IEC 62430 – Horizontal standard for Environmentally
Conscious Design of electrical and electronic products• IEC TC111
– IEC 62075 – Vertical standard for Environmentally Conscious Design of ICT/CE products
• IEC TC108• ECMA 341 harmonized
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Type II Systems A Declaration Standard
• ECMA 370 – The Eco Declaration (TED)• Built on Nordic IT Eco Declaration• Legal and market requirements
– Only legal requirements specify thresholds
• Quality control system – Internal and independent
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Type I Eco-Labels – Pre-Certified Conformance
CANADA CROATIAAUSTRIA
USA
FRANCEGERMANY
JAPAN NORDIC COUNTRIES
EU
THE NETHERLANDSSINGAPORE The CZECH
REPUBLICTHAILAND
INDIA
CHINA
EPEAT
Hybrid Type I & II Self-Declaration with After-Market Verification
Like ENERGY STARAn environmental procurement tool designed to help
institutional IT purchasers address environmental concerns in their purchasing of desktop computers, laptops and monitors.
Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Toolwww.epeat.net
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Developed through Stakeholder ConsensusEPA-funded process facilitated by Zero Waste Alliance
• Manufacturers – Dell, HP, IBM, Apple, Panasonic, Sharp, EIA• NGOs – SVTC, Center for a New American Dream, Inform,
H2E, NERC• Governments – Federal, State and Local• Purchasers – EPA, DOI, GATX, Pitney Bowes, State of MA,
State of OR, State of CA, City of Seattle• Recyclers - United Recycling, Waste Management, IAER• Academia – Tufts, NJIT
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Key Design Principles• Serving institutional purchasers
– Simple to use one stop Registry– Cite in procurement specifications
• Pass/fail standard plus incentives to excel – Bronze, Silver, Gold tiers
• Hybrid Type 1 / Type 2
• Built from existing standards and requirements– Goal – to work toward harmonization
• Environmental leadership– Versus a baseline standard
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The EPEAT System1) IEEE Standard 1680-2006 for the Environmental
Assessment of Personal Computer Products– ANSI Standard– Comprised of 51 environmental criteria– Plus the rules of the game
2) EPEAT Registry – www.epeat.net– Managed by GEC– To identify 1680 conforming products
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EPEAT Registered Products
As of September 5, 2008. See www.epeat.net.
Desktops 4 52 59
Integrated Systems 0 20 0
Monitors 19 341 20
Notebooks 0 283 26
Total 23 696 105
Total
115
20
380
309
824
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28 Participating Manufacturers• Apple• Arquimedes Automacao e
Informatica• CIARA-TECH• CTL• Dell• EIZO NANAO• Enano Computers• Fujitsu• Fujitsu Siemens• GETAC• HP• Hyundai IT America• Lenovo• LG Electronics
• MDG Computers CN• MPC Computers• NCS Technologies• NEC Display • Northern Micro• Panasonic• Philips Electronics• Prosys Tech Corp• Samsung• Sony Electronics• Toshiba• TPV Technology• Transource• Viewsonic
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Performance Category Required Optional1. Reduce/Eliminate Environmentally
Sensitive Materials3 8
2. Material Selection 3 3
3. Design for End-of-life 6 54. Product Longevity/Lifecycle Extension 2 25. Energy Conservation 1 36. End-of-life Management 2 17. Corporate Performance 3 28. Packaging 3 4
Total 23 28
Bronze Silver & Gold
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EPEAT Product Verification• Products are self-declared to the Registry
- No third-party pre-certification- Similar to ENERGY STAR®
•Subscribers (manufacturers)-Must have specific verification evidence for all criteria
• Products routinely selected-Random timing, no advance notice
•Product Verification Committee•Results published
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EPEAT – Adoption by the MarketExecutive Order 13423, Section 2 (h) states that U.S. federal agencies need to: ensure that the agency … when acquiring an electronic product to meet its requirements, meets at least 95 percent of those requirements with an Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) - registered electronic product, unless there is no EPEAT standard for such productSeptember 2008 17Green Electronics Council
Information to the Market - Resellers & Data Providers -
• Resellers & data providers increasingly identify EPEAT products in on-line and print “catalogs”– 23 recognized resellers, growing rapidly– CNET Channel (now CBS Data), Channel Intelligence, Ingram
Micro
• How keep data up-to-date?– database changes daily – products are hard to identify
• Data maintained through a web feed
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What Will IEEE 1680 Become?• A family of environmental standards for
electronics– 1680 umbrella standard– 1680.1 for computers and monitors– 4 new standards (1680.2 – 1680.5) to be
development in the next 3 years:• Imaging devices• Televisions• Servers • Mobile Devices
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Initiatives to Internationalize EPEAT• Open Standards development
– IEEE is an international standards body– International liaisons– The goal – harmonization
• Regional declarations– System in development
• Formal registration agreements – EcoLogo
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The Emerging Standards Context• EU EuP
– Use of eco-labels for compliance assessment• Feinstein Eco-label bill
– Consistency across broader application– Broader recognition
• Opportunities– Progress on harmonization– Demonstrate viability of self-declaration with
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Contact
Green Electronics CouncilOne World Trade Center
121 SW Salmon St., Suite 210Portland OR USA 97224
Wayne [email protected]