Electronic commerce (e-commerce) will truly affect every sector ofthe economy in ways that today we can only imagine. Certainly, theelectronics sector-its products, business strategies andtechnologies-will be at the forefront of this change. But, what will bethe impact of e-commerce on the environment? This paper begins toexplore this question from the product perspective examining theenvironmental lifecycle impacts of e-commerce on electronics products,using desktop personal computers as a case study. The study identifiesspecific changes which may occur to each of the product lifecycle stagesand quantifies these impacts using traditional lifecycle assessmenttools and methodologies. Since the real scope and depth of futurebusiness changes are uncertain, two impact scenarios are modeled andanalyzed to provide upper and lower impact limits
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