The EPEAT Electronics Environmental Rating System Intro 120725.pdfTitle Slide 1 Author Wayne Rifer Created Date 8/8/2012 1:52:33 PM

THE EPEAT ELECTRONICS ENVIRONMENTAL RATING SYSTEM

© Copyright 2012 Green Electronics Council

The EPEAT Electronics Environmental

Rating System

The Electronic Product Environmental

Assessment Tool

Wayne Rifer

EPEAT Director of Standards and Training

Co-chair IEEE Standards Sponsor Committee

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Contents

1. Introduction to the EPEAT System

2. Content of the IEEE 1680 standards

3. IEEE 1680 Standard Development Projects and Plans

4. The Server Standard Project

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EPEAT®

From “Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool”

• An environmental procurement tool designed to help institutional purchasers and consumers evaluate, compare and select desktop computers, laptops and displays based on their environmental attributes.

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Basic Features: EPEAT and IEEE 1680

• Provides market recognition for environmentally preferable electronic products

• Through an easy to use purchasing tool

• Based on life cycle environmental attributes.

• EPEAT implements a voluntary consensus standard

• That is built on U.S. & international requirements & standards

– E.g., Energy Star®, RoHS, ECMA, Blue Angel.

• The current IEEE1680 standard addresses the environmental characteristics of computers and display devices,

• And is scalable to other products

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Stakeholder Consensus

• 2 year multi-stakeholder design process

– Consensus reached on 51 lifecycle environmental performance criteria

and the EPEAT system

• 1+ year standard development process

• Extensive engagement of:

– Environmental advocacy groups

– Manufacturers, Technical Experts, Recyclers

– Private and public purchasers

– Governmental agency representatives

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EPEAT Balances Stakeholder Interests

• Purchasers – Ease of use

• Single source to identify qualified products

• Not require them to do technical analysis

– Verified and credible

• Manufacturers – Harmonized standard, not reinvent the wheel

– No delay in time to market

• Environmental advocates – Manufacturer claims verified

– A clear bar of environmental leadership

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Two Dimensions of EPEAT

1) IEEE 1680 Family of American National Standards

• Voluntary consensus standard process

• Open and balanced process under authority of ANSI

• Internationally recognized

2) System for identifying and verifying product claims

• EPEAT Registry at www.epeat.net

• Verification of claims

• Operated by Green Electronics Council

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IEEE 1680.1 Environmental Criteria for

Computers

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Performance Category Example Required Optional

Product-Specific Criteria

Environmentally Sensitive Materials RoHS & beyond 3 8

Material Selection Recycled content 3 3

Design for End-of-life Ease of recycling 6 5

Product Longevity/Lifecycle Extension Warranties, spare parts 2 2

Energy Conservation ENERGY STAR & beyond 1 3

Packaging Recyclable, recycled content 3 4

Corporate Criteria

End-of-life Management Take-back and recycling 2 1

Corporate Performance EMS, environmental policy, report 3 2

Overall Total Number of Criteria 23 28



EPEAT Bronze– Meets all required criteria

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

Desktops Notebooks Displays

Required 22 23 22

Optional 25 28 26

Environmental Performance Tiers

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EPEAT Registry

• A tool for manufacturers to represent the environmental

performance of their products to purchasers

– Manufacturers declare to 51 environmental criteria for each

product

– Product: Every configuration in a marketing model or chassis type,

including required peripherals

• Web Registry: www.epeat.net

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EPEAT Registry Countries/Regions

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US Canada

Australia France Lithuania Romania

Austria Finland Liechtenstein Singapore

Belgium Germany Luxembourg Slovakia

Brazil Greece Malta Slovenia

Bulgaria Hungary Mexico Spain

China Iceland Netherlands Sweden

Cypress Ireland New Zealand Switzerland

Czech Republic Italy Norway Taiwan Region of PRC

Denmark Japan Poland United Kingdom

Estonia Latvia Portugal Costa Rica

Manufacturers declare that products conform with 1680 standard in specific countries/regions.



“Trust but Verify” – EPEAT’s Unique

Conformity Assessment System

• Self-declaration with after-market verification

• Designed by stakeholder consensus

• For electronics manufactured in a global market

– Rapid product turn-over

– High complexity, high configurability

• Components change >7 times in production life

• Vast global supply chain

– Over 3000 products on Registry, well over 100 changes per week

– High diversity of environmental requirements

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Content of the IEEE 1680 standards

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IEEE 1680 Family of American National

Standards

1680 – The Umbrella Standard

1680.1 – Environmental Criteria for Computers (Soon to be

Updated)

1680.2 – Environmental Criteria for Imaging Equipment

(Near Completion)

1680.3 – Environmental Criteria for Televisions (Near

Completion)



Environmental Assessment Standards

Committee (EASC)

1680 Umbrella

Standard

1680.1 Computers

and Displays

1680.2 Imaging

Devices 1680.3

Televisions

IEEE 1680 Standards and Workgroups

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Development of the IEEE 1680 Family

• New product standards near completion

– 1680.2 – Imaging equipment (printers, copiers, MFDs, etc.)

– 1680.3 – Televisions

• Update of existing standards

– 1680.1 – Computers/displays

– 1680 – Umbrella standard

• New product standards planned for development

– Servers

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Challenges of Standard Development

• The stakes are high.

• Process is an open participatory democracy.

• Length of the process is exhausting.

• Resolving contention is the challenge.

• Fortunately, the great majority are committed to

an outcome.

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EPEAT Contacts

Jeff Omelchuck Executive Director [email protected]

Wayne Rifer Director of Standards [email protected]

Sarah O’Brien Director of Outreach &

Communications [email protected]

Erin Gately Registry Services Manager [email protected]

Pamela Brody-Heine Project Manager [email protected]

Christina Brown Quality Manager [email protected]

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The Server Standard Project

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Server Standard Technical Committee

• A small balanced group of stakeholders

– Launched in May, expected completion early fall

• Developing recommendations for a Preliminary

Draft Standard

– Including product scope

• Following completion, a Working Group will be

launched

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The Product Scope Issue

• Technical Committee recommendations not yet finalized

• A substantial majority support a product scope to include

computer servers – as defined in the Energy Star Server

specification – including managed servers and blade

servers.

• A small minority also supported including data center

storage devices defined according the ENERGY STAR

specification (once it is final) and/or networking

equipment.

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The EPEAT Electronics Environmental Rating System Intro 120725.pdfTitle Slide 1 Author Wayne Rifer Created Date 8/8/2012 1:52:33 PM