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The EPEAT® Standard and LCA
Wayne RiferElectronic 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
Environmental Assessment Standards Committee (EASC)
1680 Umbrella Standard
1680.1 Computers and Monitors
1680.2 Imaging Devices
1680.3 Televisions
1680.4 Handheld Devices
1680.5 Servers
EPEAT Standards and Workgroups
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• AsusTek• 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.
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Environmental Performance Categories
• Environmentally Sensitive Materials• Materials Selection• Design for End of Life• Product Longevity/Life Cycle Extension• Energy Conservation• End of Life Management• Corporate Performance• Packaging
51 criteriao 23 requiredo 28 optional
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
• 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– DfEoL 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
EPEAT and LCA
• 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 DfE 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
Proposed LCA-based Criteria for New Standards
Contact
Wayne RiferManager of EPEAT Standards and VerificationCo-Chair of IEEE 1680 Standards [email protected]
EPEAT Product Registry www.epeat.net
IEEE Standards Developmentwww.epeatdevelopment.net