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Strategic Care Project
Motivation
In Europe is now a clear societal need for take-back and recycling of electronic products. “Closing the loop” would serve several (partly interlinked) goals, such as:
- Reduction of the amount of materials and environmentally relevant substances going to landfill,
- Control of environmentally relevant substances (inorganic) or annihilation of such substances (organic),
Description of the Project
Consumers demand reliable, efficient products in order to maintain their quality of life; these must be provided with minimum environmental impact over the whole life cycle.
The underlying problem is the lack of a closed information loop in the lifetime of a product. Information available at one stage (for example materials content known in manufacture) is lost and has to be regained at another stage (e.g. a
Project main Goals
The overall objectives of the ADOPT project are:
- To gain a better understanding of the needs of European industry for future RTD programmes, network structures and co-ordination actions through analysis actions,
- To consolidate analysis results to identify mechanisms to enhance the potential for “translating scientific knowledge into innovation”, and diffusion of technologies developed under RTD proje
The Virtual University for Sustainable Development ensures that the concept of sustainability becomes available world-wide through distance learning.
Objectives
The main objective of VERC is the provision of services to all recycling actors or customers through out Europe mainly using the most recent advances in Information and Communication Technologies. These services would deal to higher competitiveness of European Recycling Industry, more transparency in secondary materials exchanges, and increasing recycling ratios to reach the targets of actual and emerging legislation. Main involved actors,
The International Care Electronics Office has been taken over by the Austrian Society for Systems Engineering and Automation in June 1997. CARE Electronics (CARE means Comprehensive Approach for the Resource- and Energy-efficiency) is a voluntary, international and environmental R&D network within the EUREKA framework.
Background
This project was being pursued on behalf of the municipality Vienna, starting in March 2003 and closing in December 2003. The background of the project is represented by the fact of continuously and fast increasing amount of electr(on)ic waste. Due to consumption-, demand-related and technical aspects, no improvement or alleviation is in sight within the near future. Facing the problem, the necessity of developing systems enabling a prolongation of use
Scope
This Project was funded within the EU-Program GROWTH and will focus on the product-service life cycle of electr(on)ic products, and involve key players in the electronics and automotive industries in all of the various stages of the product-service life cycle – from component suppliers and product manufacturers, to service and logistic suppliers and End-of-Life processors. The main activities of the Network will focus on the environmental and
Specific Project Objectives
- Training of Serbian experts from institutions and universities with vital role in the environmental protection, waste management and recycling (EPWMR)
- Development of an analysis and recommendations for the improvement of EPWMR in Serbia with special focus on the improvement of the role and activities of higher education institutions in the areas of education, and know-how and
Introduction
Currently about 2 billion TV-sets exist in the world which come back for recycling within the next 15-20 years. If we consider these huge amounts of WEEE there is a need for eco-efficient recycling technologies. Electronic recycling industry must meet future demands on industrial efficiency and cost reduction. Therefore, the dismantling process of TV-sets and monitors must be dramatically rationalised maintaining as high as possible environme