Eco-Efficiency of Electric and Electronic Appliances: A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
By Y. Barba-Gutiérrez, Belarmino Adenso-Díaz, Sebastián Lozano. 2009
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Several papers have studied the eco-efficiency of manufacturing systems to address strategic socioeconomic issues in the context of sustainability analysis. Their goal has been to take into account not only environmental impact aspects throughout the whole life cycle but also to incorporate the associated economic value as well, thus, giving a comprehensive vision of both factors. This paper focuses on different commonplace household electric appliances, comparing their eco-efficiency computed using a data envelopment analysis model. We consider the retail price as a measure of the product’s economic value and the ecopoint LCA score as the assessment of its environmental impact. We conclude that cell phones and the bulky analyzed appliances have the highest eco-efficiency scores, whereas the rest would require a more environmentally friendly redesign and/or an increase in their perceived value to improve their eco-efficiency.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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Citations in the corpus
- A new frontier approach to model the eco-efficiency in European countries (2015, methodology): “Mandal (2010) studied EE of the cement industry in India while Barba-Gutierrez et al. (2009) used the Life Cycle Assessment to compare the EE of different household electric appliances using their environmental impact.”
- Environmental efficiency assessment of U.S. transport sector: A slack-based data envelopment analysis approach (2016, unknown): “…focused on the environmental efficiency of the industrial sector (Egilmez et al., 2013), freight transportation from manufacturing perspective (Egilmez and Park, 2014; Park et al., 2015), cross country comparison (Zhou et al., 2006; Simsek, 2014), and the electricity sector (Barba-Gutiérrez, 2009).”