scope:

This standard defines environmental performance criteria for personal computer products, including desktop computers, notebook computers, and computer displays. The environmental performance criteria relate to reduction or elimination of environmentally sensitive materials, materials selection, design for end of life, life cycle extension, energy conservation, end-of-life management, corporate performance, and packaging. Guidelines and implementation procedures for this standard are included in the umbrella standard, IEEE Std 1680™.

Purpose

This standard provides a clear and consistent set of performance criteria for the design of personal computer products, thereby providing an opportunity to secure market recognition for efforts to reduce the environmental impact of electronic products. This standard is intended to provide a tool for government, institutional, and corporate purchasers. Product manufacturers may also use this tool to earn recognition in the consumer market, recognizing that certain criteria may not be applicable to all types of purchasers.

The environmental performance criteria of this standard are intended to define a measure of environmental leadership in: the design and manufacture of personal computer products; the delivery of specified services that are associated with the sale of the product; and in associated corporate performance characteristics.

This standard is defined with the intention that the criteria are technically feasible to achieve, but that only products demonstrating the leading environmental performance currently available in the marketplace would meet them at the time of their adoption. As the environmental performance of products that are available in the marketplace improves, it is intended that the criteria will be updated and revised to set a higher performance standard for leadership products.