Whole life considerations in IT procurement

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 344-348

  Matthews, David ^a   Axelrod, Shirli ^b  

^a City of Seattle Legislative Dept   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer manufacturing; Computer recycling reuse; e waste; Environmentally aware computer manufacturers; IT procurement; Sustainable electronics practices; Toxins in computers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; E-MAIL; ELECTRONICS; ENVIRONMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RECYCLING; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 7544229308     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1065/lca2004.09.180.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. The Basel Action Network (BAN) is an international network of activists seeking to prevent the globalization of the toxic chemical crisis, http://www.ban.org/
2. The Center for A New American Dream, Computer purchasing strategies for governments, http://www.newdream.org/procure/ products/computers.html
3. City of Seattle Copernicus Purchasing Project. This is the very successful project that has brought together representatives from all City departments to collaborate on purchasing decisions. It has resulted in significant cost savings. They sponsored the CRT vs. LCD study and are developing purchasing scorecards that include sustainability considerations. Lead: Ulla Johnson, phone: +1-206-615-0593
4. City of Seattle Distributed Computing and Commodities Team - part of the Copernicus project. This is a team made up of representatives from across all City departments. They sponsored both the PDA and laptop standardization projects. Lead: David Matthews, phone: +1-206-684-5199
5. City of Seattle Office of Sustainability and the Environment - many good resources for recycling. Shirli Axelrod, phone: +1-206-684-7804
6. Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool project; a multi-stakeholder process to design and implement a tool for evaluating the environmental performance of electronic products, http:// www.epeat.net/
7. The European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) is an international, industry association founded in 1961 and dedicated to the standardization of information and communication systems, http://www.ecma- international.org/
8. Karliner, Joshua (1997): The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalization. Sierra Club Books, p17, November
9. The Northwest Product Stewardship Council (NWPSC) is a group of government agencies working with businesses and non-profit organizations to integrate product stewardship principles into the policy and economic structures of the Pacific Northwest, http://www.productstewardship.net/index.html
10. Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. A comprehensive site on high tech impacts on community, worker and environmental health, http://www.svtc.org
11. TCO The Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees, www.tcodevelopment.com
12. University of Tennessee, Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Design for the Environment Program: Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of CRT and LCD Desktop Monitors. Maria Leet Socolof, Jonathan Overly, Lori E. Kincaid, Ragive Dhingra. Dipti Singh and Katherine M. Hart, February 2001
13. US Environmental Protection Agency, http://www.epa.gov
14. US Environmental Protection Agency, Design for the Environment program, http://www.epa.gov/dfe/index.htm
15. US Environmental Protection Agency's Environmentally Preferable Purchasing database, http://yosemite1.epa.gov/oppt/eppstand2.nsf/Pages/ DisplayAisle.html?Open&Computer%20Store&Computers