Integrating environmental decisions into the product development process. II. The later stages

This paper reports on the results of a three year UK government funded research project entitled design for the environment decision support (DEEDS). As part of this project, a survey of the electronic and electrical industry was carried our in order to understand the way in which industry in the UK, Central Europe and the USA are carrying out ecodesign. The survey also investigated the successes and failures that companies have experienced and the lessons learnt along the way. In this second paper, the authors are concerned with the implementation of environmental considerations post-specification.