46 Sustainable products
If the product design includes batteries, has the design been assessed for the following? •
Product containing batteries meets applicable regulatory requirements and international standards. •
Consider products that need to include batteries to:
Use battery materials with reduced environmental impacts, i.e. Lithium-ion, nickel-metal hydride, and battery materials that are recyclable.
Design battery compartment such that batteries can be identified and removedreplaced easily
without tools.
Design batteries that are not permanently attached e.g. soldered to the PWB or any other component of the product.
Battery management features that help to prolong battery life.
Consider alternatives to back up batteries, e.g. flash memory.
Evaluate measures to prevent detect battery failure and potential rupture, which may pose safety
or environmental issues.
Provide battery compartments with adequate ventilation and cooling.
Provide temperature and voltage monitoring, particularly for parallel strings of batteries.
Provide battery high temperature alarms and low float voltage alarms for large storage batteries.
Include an inspection and maintenance schedule – with decreased maintenance intervals i.e. more frequent maintenance in warmer climates.
5.7 Product packagingpacking
The material in this checklist refers to sections 2.1.3.2.6 and 3.1.3.3. For the design of a product’s packagingpacking, have the following environmental issues been
evaluatedconsidered? •
Product packagingpacking meets applicable environmental regulatory requirements and international standards.
• Conformance with the following restricted materials:
Asbestos CAS 1332-21-4 and others and asbestos-containing materials
Cadmium CAS 7440-43-9 and cadmium compounds
Copper chromium arsenate pressure treated wood
CFCs – CFC 11, CFC 12, CFC 13, CFC 111, CFC 112, CFC 113, CFC 114, CFC 115, CFC 211, CFC 212,
CFC213, CFC 214, CFC 215, CFC 216, CFC 217
Selected chlorinated hydrocarbons, and all their isomers:
Carbon tetrachloride CAS 56-23-5
Methyl chloroform1,1,1 trichloroethane CAS 71-55-6
Hexavalent chromium compounds CAS varies
Lead CAS 7439-92-1 and lead compounds
Mercury CAS 7439-97-6 and mercury compounds
CFCshydrochlorofluorocarbons HCFCs
Cobalt dichloride
Dimethylfumarate DMF – used in silica gels
Sum of heavy metals concentrations cadmium, hexavalent chromium, lead and mercury present as incidental or background contamination does not exceed 100 parts per million ppm by weight in
any packaging or packaging component.
• Material design and selection – use preferred materials: e.g. natural craft corrugated fiberboard, wood,
plywood recommended instead of bleached white corrugated fibreboard. Also use high recycled content corrugated fibreboard over other materials of original resource content or plastics derived
from non-renewablelimited resources. Avoid the following materials:
