Appliance Design - September 2008 - (Page 15) NEwS watch reuse, and recycle. Consumers who have electronics that are still useful are encouraged to take them to reuse and refurbishment organizations. End-of-life electronics that are directed to recycling will be taken to processing facilities that will be required to meet strict environmental, health and safety standards to ensure that these materials won’t find their way into the environment. The plan requires brand owners, first importers and assemblers to pay fees to OES that will be used to operate the program. Group members will pay 100 percent of the program costs, estimated to be $62 million in year one. the quality requirements that should be considered in all steps of the recovery process. Selection of any one of the available recycling options should be based on compliance with the following requirements: the need to minimize adverse environmental impact; prior demonstration of sustainable commercial viability; and secure access to viable systems for collection and quality control. IS NaNO SaFE? Are researchers apply- ing lessons learned from past technologies to ensure the safe and responsible development of emerging nanotechnologies? A study, which appeared in the journal, Nature Nanotechnology, questions whether the scientists have learned past lessons. Researchers applied 12 “late lessons from early warnings,” published by the European Environment Agency aNSI OK’S StaNDaRD. The American National Standards Institute has recognized the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers’ Room Air Conditioner standard as an American National Standard. The standard, Room Air Conditioners, AHAM RAC-1-2008, earned recognition through ANSI’s peer review canvass process. The standard establishes repeatable procedures and evaluation methods for measuring performance characteristics of room air conditioners. The standard describes definitions, testing conditions, and performance tests for cooling capacity, moisture removal capacity, ventilating and exhaust air quantity, and maximum operating conditions. ISO PLaStIc StaNDaRD. A new ISO International Standard has been established to assist in plastic recovery and recycling. The ISO 15270:2008, Plastics – Guidelines for the Recovery and Recycling of Plastics Waste, has been developed to assist in the development of a sustainable global infrastructure for plastics recovery and recycling, and a sustainable market for recovered plastics materials and their derived manufactured products. The standard establishes the different options for the recovery of plastics waste arising from pre-consumer and post-consumer sources. In general, plastics recovery technologies are divided into material recovery and energy recovery. This International Standard also establishes www.applianceDESIGN.com AD09084WORLD.indd 1 applianceDESIGN September 2008 15 AM 8/11/08 11:40:54 http://www.worldproducts.com http://www.worldproducts.com http://www.appliancedesign.com
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