Golisano Institute for Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 14623, USA.
Finger Lakes Community College, Canandaigua, NY, 14424, USA.
Sci Data. 2020 Jul 30;7(1):251. doi: 10.1038/s41597-020-0573-9.
Consumer electronic products have a complex life cycle, characterized by environmental, social, and economic impacts and benefits associated with their manufacturing, use, and disposal at end-of-life. Accurately analysing these trade-offs and creating sustainable solutions requires data about the materials and components that make up these devices. Such information is rarely disclosed by manufacturers and only exists in the open literature in disparate case study format. This study presents a comprehensive database of bill of material (BOM) data describing the mass of major materials and components contained in 95 unique consumer electronic products. Data are generated by product disassembly and physical characterization and then validated against external benchmarks in the literature. The study also contributes a reproducible framework for organizing BOM data so that they can be expanded as new products enter the market. These data will benefit researchers studying all aspects of electronics and sustainability, including material scarcity, product design, environmental life cycle assessment, electronic waste policy, and environmental health and safety.
消费电子产品的生命周期较为复杂，其生产、使用和报废处理等环节都会对环境、社会和经济产生影响，带来相应的效益。准确分析这些权衡取舍并制定可持续解决方案，需要了解构成这些设备的材料和组件的数据。但制造商很少披露此类信息，相关信息只以分散的案例研究形式存在于公开文献中。本研究提供了一个全面的材料清单 (BOM) 数据库，其中描述了 95 种不同消费电子产品中主要材料和组件的质量。这些数据是通过产品拆解和物理特性分析生成的，然后与文献中的外部基准数据进行验证。该研究还提供了一个可重复使用的 BOM 数据组织框架，以便随着新产品进入市场而扩展这些数据。这些数据将使研究电子产品和可持续性的各个方面的研究人员受益，包括材料稀缺性、产品设计、环境生命周期评估、电子废物政策以及环境健康和安全。
