The EPEAT® Standard and LCA Wayne Rifer Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool Green Electronics Council

Two Dimension of EPEAT IEEE 1680 family of American National Standards 1680 umbrella standard – the rules of the game 1680.1 environmental criteria for computers & monitors 1680.2 environmental criteria for imaging equipment (under development) 1680.2 environmental criteria for TVs (under development) System for identifying and verifying product claims EPEAT Registry at www.epeat.net) Self-declaration with after-market verification 2

EPEAT Standards and Workgroups Environmental Assessment Standards Committee (EASC) 1680 Umbrella Standard 1680.1 Computers and Monitors 1680.2 Imaging Devices 1680.3 Televisions 1680.4 Handheld Devices 1680.5 Servers

EPEAT Tiers EPEAT Bronze EPEAT Silver – Meets all required criteria and at least 50% of the optional criteria EPEAT Gold – Meets all required criteria and at least 75% of the optional criteria 4

EPEAT Registered Products As of 09/15/09. See www.epeat.net for current numbers.

32 Participating Manufacturers Acer Apple Arquimedes Automatacao AsusTek CIARA-TECH Corporativo Lanix CTL Dell EIZO NANAO Fujitsu Gammatech General Dynamics Itronix GETAC Hewlett Packard Howard Technology Solutions Hyundai IT America Lenovo LG Electronics M&A Technology MDG Computers NCS Technologies NEC Display Solutions Northern Micro Panasonic Philips Electronics Positivo Informatica Samsung Sony Electronics Toshiba TPV Transource Viewsonic As of 05/11/2009. See www.epeat.net/Companies.aspx for current list.

Environmental Performance Categories Environmentally Sensitive Materials Materials Selection Design for End of Life Product Longevity/Life Cycle Extension Energy Conservation End of Life Management Corporate Performance Packaging There are 23 required criteria and 28 optional criteria. They are divided into the following eight categories:   Reduction/Elimination of Environmentally Sensitive Materials (3 required; 8 optional) Material Selection (3 required; 3 optional) Design for End of Life (5 required; 6 optional) Product Longevity/ Life Extension (2 required; 2 optional) Energy Conservation (1 required; 3 optional) End of Life Management (2 required; 1 optional) Corporate Performance (3 required; 2 optional) Packaging (3 required; 4 optional) For additional details, a summary of the IEEE 1680 standard, which is the foundation of the EPEAT system, is available on the EPEAT website at www.epeat.net Copies of the full IEEE 1680 standard must be purchased from IEEE. To purchase a copy of IEEE 1680 visit <http://shop.ieee.org/ieeestore/>. Simply search for 1680. 51 criteria 23 required 28 optional

EPEAT Development New product standards International Registry Imaging equipment (printers, copiers, MFDs, etc.) TVs Update of 1680.1 computer standard Servers Mobile devices International Registry 40 countries Initially dedicated to institutional market Moving into consumer market

EPEAT and LCA Stakeholder consensus is the essence of EPEAT Consensus-based criteria versus science-based LCA & stakeholder judgments focus differently Sensitive materials – stakeholders judgments are precaution-based DfEoL and take-back are priorities Can LCAs inform environmental priorities? Energy efficiency in use versus life extension Elimination of toxins (Pb) versus LC impacts

EPEAT and LCA Held LCA seminar for stakeholders – Key messages Limitations of LCA or LCI results are too great (data quality, boundary variability, etc.) to base quantitative thresholds on them Reward the process, not the result Use established third-party tools Use tools that lock in data and boundary variability

Proposed LCA-based Criteria for New Standards Corporate performance Perform LCA or corporate carbon footprint, water footprint Achieving x% reduction in carbon footprint LCI or LCA of product’s carbon footprint (various LC boundaries) Per ISO 14040/ 14044 or PAS 2050 Annual carbon disclosure scope 1 & 2 integrate life cycle &/or DfE thinking into product design Materials selection LCA for embodied/used energy on 90% of the materials/ components in product LCA-based demonstration that materials use x% less energy cradle to cradle than previous generation

Proposed LCA-based Criteria for New Standards Environmentally sensitive materials LCA-based tool to assess alternative FRs Energy conservation LCA-based demonstration that product uses/ embodies x% less LC energy than previous generation, as alternative to ENERGY STAR Other proposed science-based assessments Health exposure/risk Resource depletion Recyclability analysis

Contact Wayne Rifer Manager of EPEAT Standards and Verification Co-Chair of IEEE 1680 Standards Sponsor wayne.rifer@greenelectronicscouncil.org EPEAT Product Registry www.epeat.net IEEE Standards Development www.epeatdevelopment.net