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Transactions: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of ENERGY and ENVIRONMENT
Transactions ID Number: 17-250
Full Name: Alejandro Romero
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Age: ON
Sex: Male
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Country: CANADA
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E-mail address: alejandro.romero@polymtl.ca
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Title of the Paper: Healthcare waste and extended producer responsibility: the specific case of e-medical equipment
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Elisabeth Lefebvre, Alejandro Romero, Louis-A. Lefebvre
Email addresses of all the authors: elisabeth.lefebvre@polymtl.ca, alejandro.romero@polymtl.ca, Louis.a.lefebvre@polymtl.ca, caroline.krissi@polymtl.ca
Number of paper pages: 8
Abstract: The extended producer responsibility implies more than the mere take-back and recycling programs tailored towards the end-of-life management. It requires the producers to design products that are environmentally friendly during all stages of their life cycle, namely manufacturing, usage or consumption, and final disposal. In particular, it implies that products at the end of their useful life should be easily dismantled, recovered, reused, and recycled. This paper examines how the producers of electronic medical equipment (e-medical equipment) attempt to reduce the environmental impacts of their products during its entire life cycle through different initiatives. The main objectives are as follows: to gain a better understanding of these environmentally proactive initiatives, to assess their relative importance, to analyze the main drivers and to examine the key benefits that are derived from such initiatives.
Keywords: Electronic waste, healthcare, environmental initiatives, electronic medical equipment, extended producer responsibility.
EXTENSION of the file: .doc
Special (Invited) Session: Greening the e-medical equipment: Assessing the initiatives undertaken by the producers
Organizer of the Session: 303-295
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