Improving product environmental impact at all life cycles is an important topic for manufacturers of Hi-Tech products. The end-of-life is one stage of the life cycle stages gaining attention in the public realm and in the market. Companies must understand how to improve their products so that the environmental impact will be lower at the end-of-life while also minimizing costs. Environmental value chain analysis is based on the concepts of customer value chain analysis and …showed first 75 words of 3956 total…

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