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Article: Ecma International has Taken the Lead in the Standardisation of Environmentally Conscious Design Practices by Publishing the Second Edition of ECMA-341.
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- July 6, 2005
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GENEVA, Switzerland, July 6 /PRNewswire/ --
- Environmentally Conscious Design
ECMA-341 was the world's first standard defining the requirements and recommendations for a commercially viable, environmentally conscious design of products in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Consumer Electronics (CE). The objective is to minimise the environmental impact throughout the life cycle of a product. ECMA-341 provides pragmatic guidelines on how to integrate environmental aspects in the product design and development processes. It covers, among other issues, energy and resource consumption, material content and selection, chemical and noise ...