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Design for sustainability and the ecodesign of electronic products are driven by legislation and other policy instruments, rising resource prices for limited resources, as well as consumer demand and market opportunities. Designers and engineers need to design electronic products so that they are beneficial for environment, society and the economy. This can be achieved by starting with a real demand and then searching for sustainable solutions that are eco-efficient and effective, based on sustainable materials, minimizing energy consumption in the production and use phase, designing products that can be re-used and recycled at the end of their life, or are non-toxic and biodegradable so that they can be given back to nature as food for ecosystems. in addition they have to be embedded in sustainable production and consumption systems. The more general background and rationale as well as several tools and methodologies, case studies and more radical concepts for such more sustainable electronic products are described in this chapter. |
