This workshop will focus on environmental impacts of electronic products and explore the many ways that these impacts are being addressed around the world by governments, industry, and environmental advocates.
Electronics is one of the hottest areas of environmental action as business strategies and environmental ideologies interact with each other over the need to develop a cohesive public policy. This workshop will bring together several of the disciplines addressed in other workshops – sustainability, zero waste, environmental purchasing, metrics, and others – to focus on electronic products.
This workshop will address strategies that are working, e.g. marketplace incentives for environmental design, as well as those that are not working, e.g. end-of-life management through the lens of stakeholder perspectives and processes.