The development of an ecodesign product - The ecomouse case study

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 102-123

  Schneider, Felicitas ^a   Salhofer, Stefan ^a   Schiffleitner, Andreas ^b,c,d   Stachura, Marek ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b KERP Centre of Excellence Electronics and Environment   (Austria)

^c KERP Centre of Excellence Electronics and Environment

^d R and D Department for Sustainable Product Design

Author keywords

Case study; Computer mouse; DLC; Double layer capacitor; Ecodesign; Electronic; LCA; Lead free soldering; Life cycle assessment; Renewable resources

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER; DESIGN; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

EID: 44649096921     PISSN: 14768917     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PIE.2008.018546     Document Type: Article

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