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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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


http://www.epeat.net/

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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


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


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


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]

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