The EPEAT Standard and LCA Wayne Rifer Electronic
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The EPEAT Standard and LCA ® Wayne Rifer Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool Green Electronics Council
Two Dimension of EPEAT 1) IEEE 1680 family of American National Standards • 1680 umbrella standard – the rules of the game • 1680. 1 environmental criteria for computers & monitors • 1680. 2 environmental criteria for imaging equipment (under development) • 1680. 2 environmental criteria for TVs (under development) 2) System for identifying and verifying product claims • EPEAT Registry at www. epeat. net) • Self-declaration with after-market verification
EPEAT Standards and Workgroups Environmental Assessment Standards Committee (EASC) 1680 Umbrella Standard 1680. 1 Computers and Monitors 1680. 2 Imaging Devices 1680. 3 Televisions 1680. 5 Servers 1680. 4 Handheld Devices
EPEAT Tiers EPEAT Bronze – Meets all 23 required criteria EPEAT Silver – Meets all required criteria and at least 50% of the optional criteria EPEAT Gold – Meets all required criteria and at least 75% of the optional criteria
EPEAT Registered Products As of 09/15/09. See www. epeat. net for current numbers.
32 Participating Manufacturers • • • • Acer Apple Arquimedes Automatacao Asus. Tek CIARA-TECH Corporativo Lanix CTL Dell EIZO NANAO Fujitsu Gammatech General Dynamics Itronix GETAC Hewlett Packard Howard Technology Solutions Hyundai IT America • • • • Lenovo LG Electronics M&A Technology MDG Computers NCS Technologies NEC Display Solutions Northern Micro Panasonic Philips Electronics Positivo Informatica Samsung Sony Electronics Toshiba TPV Transource Viewsonic As of 05/11/2009. See www. epeat. net/Companies. aspx for current list.
Environmental Performance Categories • • Environmentally Sensitive Materials Selection Design for End of Life Product Longevity/Life Cycle Extension Energy Conservation End of Life Management 51 criteria Corporate Performance Packaging o 23 required o 28 optional 7
EPEAT Development • New product standards – Imaging equipment (printers, copiers, MFDs, etc. ) – TVs – Update of 1680. 1 computer standard – Servers – Mobile devices • International Registry – 40 countries • Initially dedicated to institutional market – Moving into consumer market
EPEAT and LCA • Stakeholder consensus is the essence of EPEAT – Consensus-based criteria versus science-based • LCA & stakeholder judgments focus differently – Sensitive materials – stakeholders judgments are precaution-based – Df. Eo. L and take-back are priorities • Can LCAs inform environmental priorities? – Energy efficiency in use versus life extension – Elimination of toxins (Pb) versus LC impacts
EPEAT and LCA • Held LCA seminar for stakeholders – Key messages – Limitations of LCA or LCI results are too great (data quality, boundary variability, etc. ) to base quantitative thresholds on them – Reward the process, not the result • Use established third-party tools • Use tools that lock in data and boundary variability
Proposed LCA-based Criteria for New Standards • Corporate performance – Perform LCA or corporate carbon footprint, water footprint – Achieving x% reduction in carbon footprint – LCI or LCA of product’s carbon footprint (various LC boundaries) • Per ISO 14040/ 14044 or PAS 2050 – Annual carbon disclosure scope 1 & 2 – integrate life cycle &/or Df. E thinking into product design • Materials selection – LCA for embodied/used energy on 90% of the materials/ components in product – LCA-based demonstration that materials use x% less energy cradle to cradle than previous generation
Proposed LCA-based Criteria for New Standards • Environmentally sensitive materials – LCA-based tool to assess alternative FRs • Energy conservation – LCA-based demonstration that product uses/ embodies x% less LC energy than previous generation, as alternative to ENERGY STAR • Other proposed science-based assessments – Health exposure/risk – Resource depletion – Recyclability analysis
Contact Wayne Rifer Manager of EPEAT Standards and Verification Co-Chair of IEEE 1680 Standards Sponsor wayne. rifer@greenelectronicscouncil. org EPEAT Product Registry www. epeat. net IEEE Standards Development www. epeatdevelopment. net
