Nokia Environmental Report 2002

Environmental Report 2002
E N V I R O N M E N T A L P R O F I L E
Outline of environmental aspects of Nokia’s products
Use of
hazardous
materials
Water
Energy
Total
environ-
mental
impact
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Waste ✗✗
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Raw
materials
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Nokia products in LCA perspective
Energy consumption and the recycling of products at the
end-of-life stage are among the most important environmental
aspects of all Nokia products. Global concern about
carbon dioxide emissions from the use of fossil fuels underlines
the importance of energy consumption at the various
life cycle stages, including the product usage stage. Concerns
about the effects of carbon dioxide emissions on
climate are also increasing the environmental significance
of transportation and logistics, which are largely based on
use of fossil fuels. Nokia is working on this question together
with its logistics service providers with the aim of establishing
reliable and comparable data on carbon dioxide
emissions associated with logistics.
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Compo-
nent
manu-
facturing
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Own
operations
Logistics Use End-of-
Life
Practices
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minor impact
✗ moderate impact
✗✗ considerable impact
✗✗✗ substancial impact
✗✗✗(✗) crucial impact
The amount of crosses signifies
the relative importance of the
life cycle phase in question.
The crosses can be compared
horizontally, but not vertically.
The total environmental impact
bars aim at taking into account
also the importance of the
impacts and therefore the amount
of crosses isn't necessarily equal
to the size of the bar. The total
impacts can be compared
horizontally.
The life-cycle profiles of Nokia’s main products, mobile
phones and network equipment, are somewhat different.
For mobile phones, the upstream stages of raw material
extraction and component manufacture account for the
biggest part of the overall environmental impact. For
network equipment, energy consumption during use
accounts for the biggest part.
A relevant difference between Nokia products is that
network products contain a large proportion of metals
whose processing consumes more energy than that of
plastics, the dominant material in mobile phones. On
the other hand, metals can be more readily recovered
for reuse and recycling than plastics.