Pragmatic use of priority life cycle assessment elements to helpdrive product stewardship

摘要

Hewlett-Packard, Computer Products Organization (CPO) has launcheda product stewardship program with an overall objective to provideproducts and services that are environmentally sound throughout theirlife cycle and to conduct operations worldwide in an environmentallyresponsible manner. A set of metrics or measurement tools was needed tohelp drive product and process improvements and to provide management aneasy method to review and measure progress. The metrics should be easyto use, pragmatic and noncontroversial. The metrics are used to setproduct specific objectives and provide a method to measure percentageimprovement above a baseline. The metrics can be used with product,packaging, consumables, learning products, (manuals, etc.) andmanufacturing processes