Chapter 8

DEVELOPING AN ECODESIGN STRATEGY

The very first step in EcoDesign only needs a perceptive and inquiring mind. If you think about the basics of your product and have a rough, basic understanding of environmental problems related to electronics, you will be able to give an approximate guess about your product's most environmentally significant aspects on which you should focus your eco-design strategy.
Key questions to ask are:

• What is the main purpose or application of your product?
What are the most likely usage patterns?
• What is the intended lifetime, the usual lifetime?
• Who is the user?
  Business-to-business or business-to-consumer?
• What is the product size?

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