Sustainable Industrial Systems
for Urban Regions (SISFUR)
Researchers in the
UWME DFE lab partnering with
faculty at Georgia Tech and West Virginia University to encourage new
manufacturing activity through recycling materials and remanufacturing
products in urban areas. We hypothesize this is a promising economic
development strategy that simultaneously advances urban and industrial
sustainability.
The project scope includes case studies in combining
input-output models for the Seattle and Atlanta regions with
Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) of carpet and ewaste recycling systems.
Monitor Recycling
As part of the SISFUR project, the UWME DFE lab is
focusing on modeling the life cycle of monitor recycling processes (CRTs,
LCDs, plasma, and OLEDs) by combining with LCA an understanding of:
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monitor sales estimates & lag-to-retirement
projections
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collection, disassembly, and recycling processes and
scenarios
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the materials contained in each type of monitor
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See for example Lee, S.J., J.S.
Cooper, “Estimating Regional Material Flows for LCDs,” Proceedings
of the IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the
Environment ISEE San Francisco, CA, May 19-21 (2008)
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and consider the following
To learn more about the SISFUR project,
including research at Georgia Tech and West Virginia University, visit the
SISFUR project website at
http://sisfur.coa.gatech.edu/
The
research team acknowledges the support by
the
U.S.
National
Science Foundation’s Material Use: Science, Engineering and Society (MUSES)
Program, under
Award No.0628190.
For
more information, contact Associate Professor Joyce Smith Cooper at
cooper@me.washington.edu
