Posts Tagged ‘LCA’

Ericsson and their LCA’s – Highlighting the ‘Products in Operation’ Phase

May 18th, 2012
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It’s great to see my ex-colleagues at Ericsson are making progress at reducing the impact of their products.

Back in 2008, Ericsson set a five-year target to reduce carbon emission intensity by 40% across their own activities and the life-cycle impacts of their ‘Products in Operation’ phase.

Direct emissions are minimal compared to their products, as you can see below. This confirms again, as with most companies, how critical the ‘Products in Operation’ phase thinking is.

On page 19 of their sustainability report, you can find their LCA results.

 

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Nokia publishes an ultra-summarised environmental product declaration for their products

January 10th, 2011
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Full Product Transparency is here today, beyond the building sector.

Well, not fully in the sense of the whole EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) following a product category rule but certainly a transparency move that not many companies are following yet.

In the following website, you can download an eco-profile for all Nokia’s products and accessories.

For example for the popular high end N95, you get this.

Hopefully the rest of the electronic industry follows and agree product category rules and start publishing proper EPDs for all products.

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More than 60% of the impacts of a mobile phone are embedded in raw materials and components

January 5th, 2011
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My ex-colleague Mats Pelback-Scharp from Sony Ericsson presented their green strategy in the latest LCA conference in London.

Interestingly around 60% of the impact of a mobile phone is embodied already in the raw materials and components.

So the myth that phones were a very small part of the whole mobile phone network is gone because it only takes account 16% of the phone’s impact.

Another myth was true but is being managed. Phone chargers used to keep on consuming energy when plugged in the switch even if the phone is fully load or unplugged.

The no-load power at Sony Ericsson has decreased from 1.4 watts in 2000 to less than 0.2 today.

Well done to Sony Ericsson, it would be great to have the data from other manufacturers as well.

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