urans will be formed when PVC is incinerated. In addition, PVC is a difficult plastic to recycle if mixed with styrenics and contaminates other plastics (e.g., PET) in the recycling process.5.0 IT Equipment Design Changes to Reduce Toxicity and Facilitate RecyclingMany manufactures are attempting to eliminate substances of concern from theirproducts, including, lead, arsenic, brominated flame retardants, cadmium, hexavalentchromium, mercury and PVC. Examples are provided below. Hewlett-Packard's Office Jet 500 multi-purpose printer uses a metal chassis andpower supply enclosure to eliminate the need for flame retardants and light emitting diodes (LED’s) instead of a mercury lamp for the scanner, and eliminates the need for batteries by using flash memory technology. The primary plastic resin used in Intel's PCs and servers (ABS and polycarbonate) does not use flame retardants that contain PBBs or PBDEs.None of their products contain asbestos, or include lead or cadmium as plasticadditives. 20 Philips Consumer Electronics evaluate all of its products against their list ofbanned substances (asbestos, cadmium, mercury, CFC/HCFC, PCP, PCB, PCT,PBB/PBBE) before their introduction. 21 Motorola conducts research with their suppliers of printed wiring board laminates,plastics, and electronic components to replace lead and BFRs. 22 Panasonic has identified 37 substances of concern in their manufacturingprocess with 13 targeted for elimination and the remaining 24 for reduction. 23 Sony Corporation is developing a non-lead based solder for some products andseeks to eliminate dioxin forming compounds through design guidelines. 24 Toshiba has introduced the Satellite 2520 notebook with a halogen-freemotherboard and plans to switch over to halogen-free boards for the entire PCproduct range by the end of 2001. 25 Digital's (now Compaq) Corporate Regulated Material Specification includes thebanning of PBBs, PBBOs and PBBEs. Numerous other...
