...Tracy Dowie Increasing quantities of waste may result in legislation to enforce the recycling of electrical and electronic products. Gives an introduction to such legislation and highlights its effects on industry today. Introduces the principle of the 3Rs, and discusses the way being done...

... Environmental considerations and new legislation mean that companies must start to consider the cost of disposal and recycling in the total life cycle cost of a product. To this end products need to be designed for service, efficient disassembly and recycling. Describes a design aid called “Design...

... more abundant and environmentally preferable materials for those that are rare or environmentally problematic; as well ass recycling and reusing products at the ends of their lives. Expounds on some of the challenges in integrating environmental considerations in design. The challenges...

... such programmes is the way forward. The next speaker, Jack Azar from Xerox Corporation, detailed his company′s efforts to employ life‐cycle design to create a corporate recycling infrastructure. Xerox strongly believes that environmental friendliness will become a customer requirement in the 1990s...