Simplified life cycle assessment for eco-design

Abstract

The environmental aspects of electrical and electronic equipment (EEEs) have emerged as a matter of primary concern and, thus, eco-design is being conducted actively. In order to identify the significant environmental aspects of a product system, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been used widely. However, a full scale LCA study is usually very detailed, expensive and time-consuming. In this study the development of a simplified LCA (SLCA) that can be applied to EEEs was attempted to efficiently identify their significant environmental aspects for eco-design.