Few of the top companies that are following sustainability in their firms are discussed. The upcoming and developing companies can follow their footprints which are quite proven and worthy.

1. SUSTAINABILITY IN
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
Consumer Electronics Association
(CEA) report
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2. CEA definition of Sustainable
Business
CEA defines environmentally sustainable
business as business that operates in a
way that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs.
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3. Environmental sustainability and
innovation is explored in the following
five ways:
• Eco-Design of products
• Energy efficiency of products
• Green facilities and manufacturing
• Clean delivery
• Giving back
• One important point is that company is concentrating on two things:
profit and planet. Every company is discovering more and more
ways to achieve these goals.
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4. One important point is that company is concentrating on
two things: profit and planet. Every company is discovering
more and more ways to achieve these goals.
The companies’ use of electricity, natural gas and water; the waste
they generate and chemicals they use, etc. are given more
concentration; greenhouse gas emissions (especially carbon
dioxide); and practices for taking back products for recycling after
consumers have finished using them. All companies have
programs underway to minimize resource and chemical use- this is
simply good business, for such practices save money.
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5. Highlight points
• Many companies are looking for ways: to
reduce waste, conserve resources and
shrink product size
• E.g. reduced electricity use
Three companies- they saved 223,000 tons of CO2 from
entering the atmosphere. That is the equivalent of taking
51,000 cars off the road for a year.
• Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas
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6. Eco-Design of products:
• Eco-design means starting off right
-Creating products out of environmentally
friendly materials, using efficient designs
that require fewer materials, and
maximizing reusability and recyclability
-Miniaturization is a clear example
-The signature practice in eco-design is
called Design for Environment (DfE).
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7. How can consumers choose
products with good eco-design?
• The Green Electronics Council (GEC) has
created a rating system called EPEAT
(Electronic Product Environmental Assessment
Tool) that evaluates products on 51
environmental criteria in eight categories,
including materials use, design for end of life,
and packaging.
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8. EPEAT
• to three tiers of environmental
performance – Bronze, Silver and Gold
• 23 required criteria and 28 optional criteria
in eight performance categories
• Categories:
• 1. Reduction/Elimination of Environmentally Sensitive Materials
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• 2. Materials Selection 3. Design for End of Life
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• 4. Life Cycle Extension 5. Energy Conservation
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• 6. End of Life Management 7. Corporate Performance
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9. • Bronze: Product meets all
required criteria
• Silver: Product meets all
required criteria plus at
least fourteen optional criteria
• Gold: Product meets all
required criteria plus at
least twenty-one optional criteria
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10. Energy Efficiency of Products
• Use less electricity
• reduce power consumption without
sacrificing product performance
• Lifecycle Analysis (LCA) tools
- raw materials, components,
manufacturing processes, delivery
methods, energy draw during use, and
reuse- recycling strategies that minimize
energy consumption.
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11. Examples
• Panasonic: reduced standby power plasma televisions
by 96% since 2000, contributing to customer energy
savings of around 3.6 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity
(enough to power more than 300,000 households for a
year).
• Seiko Epson: printers used about four times less power
in 2006 than they did in 2000
• Shift from CRT to LCD monitors that occurred earlier
this decade reduced average energy use per monitor by
about 30%.
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12. Certifications
• The ENERGY STAR certification
on energy efficiency
• The ENERGY STAR program is a partnership between
the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection
Agency, and manufacturers
• In 2007, Best Buy sold seven million units of ENERGY
STAR® products.
- saved $100 million
-the atmosphere avoided 1.4 billion pounds of carbon
emissions—the equivalent of removing 128,000 cars
from the road
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13. Examples
• Intel- new microprocessors use 10 times
less power than models from just 18
months ago
• . The Core™ 2 Duo processor uses 40%
less energy to do 40% more work than
the previous Pentium processor
• Total energy savings from all the Core 2
Duo products in the marketplace is
equivalent to taking millions of cars off the
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14. • Nokia- Electricity is consumed by mobile
phone chargers that are left plugged in
after the phone is charged
• Nokia has reduced the amount of no-load
energy in its best-in-class chargers by
90%.
• Nokia became the first mobile
manufacturer to put alerts into phones
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15. Green Facilities and
Manufacturing
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16. • recycling and turning off unnecessary
lights
• Increasing material efficiency of production
processes
• Recycling and reusing the water, metals
and other materials in a plant
• creating less scrap
• CFC replacement by LED lights having no
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17. Examples
• Intel- Efficient lighting, ―smart‖ system controls, boiler
efficiency, chilled water improvements, and heating,
ventilation, and air-conditioning improvements
-Intel’s Ocotillo plant in Chandler, has achieved excellent
results in water conservation by Internal water recycling
and reuse of wastewater
• Due to Intel’s conservation efforts, it now takes less than
10 gallons of water to produce a Core 2 Duo processor
as compared to 1,800 gallons of water to make a pair of
jeans, 120 gallons of water for a single egg, or 65
gallons of water to produce a gallon of milk.
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18. Clean Delivery
• Getting products from the raw materials
stage, to factories, and then to stores
requires teamwork by companies
throughout the supply chain
• Consumer electronics companies ship
billions of products across the globe every
year as they are assembled, distributed
and sold.
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19. • Would you think that shipping one product
instead of eight separate products would
reduce environmental impact?
• Today’s mobile phone-
a camera, personal digital assistant
(PDA), global positioning system (GPS)
device, clock or watch, land- based phone,
music player/recorder, or even TV or
computer.
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20. • PARTNERSHIPS FOR SUCCESS
-We cannot do this alone
combined with a packaging supplier and
its customers to design a multi-pack
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21. Giving Back
• Intel- 38–40% of employees worldwide do
volunteer work at non-profit organizations,
for nearly 1 million hours per year
• Panasonic’s employees participate in Walk
America, benefiting the March of Dimes,
and have raised approximately $450,000
for this cause
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22. • corporate social responsibility
-health care assistance in rural villages
where their factory workers live
• Dedicated section on their website
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23. • Imagine if companies competed for
the ecological superiority of their
products in addition to lower prices
and more technical features.
– In many ways, they already are.
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