1996 Electronics Industry Environmental Roadmap - Civil and ...

Appendix E
4 ACCESSIBILITY: Much of the World Bank data and the IPPS project are accessible in ZIP
files and tables. It is the stated intention of the World Bank to make the IPPS available for use
on the Internet site of the World Bank.
5 COST: Free access to all data/information
6 UPDATE: Unknown. The IPPS model, itself, is static. However the data used in the model
changes constantly.
7 PERTINENCE: The IPPS may be of prime importance with respect to the MCC
Environmental Roadmap. Together with a Bureau of the Census project [see Source 4] using the
same approach (for the U.S. chemical industry) this linkage activity could assist the electronics
industry in defining priority areas of environmental concern. Unfortunately, 4-digit SIC coded
data for the U.S. electronics industry are not readily available from the IPPS published reports.
However, discussions with the World Bank staff indicates that such data may be available. In
any event, the IPPS approach and/or methodology could be applied to the electronics industry if
the appropriate LRD data could be accessed. It is even possible that the model could be used
successfully without the LRD data [which are closely held by the Center for Economic Studies
(CES) of the U.S. Department of Commerce]. The approach would be to link the readily
available U.S. EPA data sets with publicly available Commerce Department data at the 4-digit
SIC level.
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