It’s no secret that the electronics industry has significant environmental impacts like e-waste, high energy consumption, and the depletion of critical raw materials (CRMs). In 2019, we began to investigate how the electronics industry could become more sustainable.
Through our work, we devised a sustainability benchmarking tool called the “GreenTool,” which is developed specifically for the electronics sector. It provides an estimate of product sustainability during the product design and development phases to guide the productization process.