Integrating toxicity reduction strategies for materials and components into product design: A case study on utility meters

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 319-328

  Lam, Carl W ^a   Lim, Seong Rin ^b   Ogunseitan, Oladele A ^c   Shapiro, Andrew A ^d   Saphores, Jean Daniel M ^d   Brock, Andrew ^e   Schoenung, Julie M ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^e RIO Tronics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Design for environment; Environmentally benign materials; Materials selection; Toxic potential; Toxics use reduction; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879511953     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.1384     Document Type: Article

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