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Nokia Product Life Cycle

The document discusses the product life cycle from extraction of raw materials through manufacturing, use, and disposal or recycling. It emphasizes the importance of considering environmental impacts throughout the entire life cycle rather than just during manufacturing. Nokia's approach is to manage environmental performance across the entire supply chain from raw material extraction to end-of-life treatment through a "cradle to grave" life cycle concept. The document outlines Nokia's environmental guidelines for suppliers, which include having an environmental policy and evaluating suppliers' environmental performance.

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Nokia Product Life Cycle

The document discusses the product life cycle from extraction of raw materials through manufacturing, use, and disposal or recycling. It emphasizes the importance of considering environmental impacts throughout the entire life cycle rather than just during manufacturing. Nokia's approach is to manage environmental performance across the entire supply chain from raw material extraction to end-of-life treatment through a "cradle to grave" life cycle concept. The document outlines Nokia's environmental guidelines for suppliers, which include having an environmental policy and evaluating suppliers' environmental performance.

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Kapil Kumar

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The product life cycle


The most effective way to reduce the impact on the environment is to integrate environmental
considerations into the product development process. To do this, designers must consider the
environmental impact of materials, energy and toxicity across an e–product’s entire life cycle.

The product life cycle begins when raw materials are extracted from the earth and ends when the
materials from the products are reused, recycled, recovered or discarded. Currently, most of what
we produce goes straight to landfill. The aim is to close the loop and recycle materials back into
the manufacturing process. This will conserve the earth’s mineral resources, save energy (by
reducing mining and transportation) and reduce waste.

NOKIA PRODUCT CYCLE

Life cycle thinking, the so called “cradle to grave” approach, requires that environmental
performance of all members in the chain is known and managed.

M = Material
E = Energy
W = Waste & M
Extraction of
emissions Raw Materials W
E
M

Par ts
E W
Manufacture

NOKIA
E W
Manufacturing

M “Old School” Environmental Management

E Use W

Disposal or
E W
Recycling

Life Cycle Concept


FROM START TO FINISH

Ever wondered where your toaster came from? Every product goes through many different
stages - from the raw materials to the finished item - and production processes.

Raw materials

Stage 1
* mining metal ore and smelting into metal alloys

* pumping oil and cracking into fuel to make plastics

* refining sand into glass and semiconductors

* cutting trees and processing them into wood or paper

Manufacture

Stage 2

Manufacture – parts formation and assembly

* transforming material into part via mould or tool

* combining parts into subassemblies

* combining subassemblies into products

* packing products for distribution

Purchase

Stage 3

Purchase – from shelf to users


* exposure of product in retail outlet

* support by advertising media

* information about product (staff, advertising, leaflet)

Use

Stage 4

Use – consumption of product

* installation of products

* first use

* regular use

* maintenance and repair

Stage 5

Disposal – collecting and moving the used product

* consumer uses the collection system

* collectors decide whether the product is reusable, recyclable, or disposable


Stage 6

Disposal – reuse, recycling and disposal, and sorting and processing

* If reusable, the product is serviced, repackaged and redistributed

* If recyclable, the product is disassembled: recyclable components are sent to recycling


centres and non-recyclable components treated as disposable

* If none of these apply, the product is landfilled or incinerated


The complete life cycle of Nokia
"Commitment to protecting the environment is an integral part of the Nokia
corporate culture and it is embedded in our values.

– Life cycle thinking, a concept we are working to embrace, covers all


environmental concerns relating to our products. We believe that Nokia's open
and ethically sound approach will help us reach the goal of sustainable
development"

– Chairman of the Board and CEO, Jorma Ollila

Sustainable development is defined as "meeting the needs of the current


generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
needs". Environ- mental protection is not something that can be added on at the
end. It comes at the beginning, taking into account all phases of the product life
cycle.

In "old school" environmental manage- ment a company is responsible only for


its

own environmental impact. At Nokia, however, we have adopted a "life cycle


concept" of environmental management. This concept takes into consideration
all phases of the product's life cycle, from design and raw mate- rials, to
manufacturing and packaging, distribu- tion and use, and finally to end of life
treatment.

For this reason, the environmental poli- cies and performance of our suppliers
are an important part of our own environmental performance. Hence we take
environmental issues into consideration when assessing potential or existing
suppliers.

Environmental management is not a separate process but an integral part of all


our operations, and those of our suppliers, inseparable from the processes of
manufacturing, distribution and disposal. To reach that goal, we make continual
improvements in our own environmental performance, and expect the same of
our suppliers.

Nokia environmental guidelines for our suppliers.


The supplier shall have an environmental policy. This policy, a statement of the
organisation's environmental principles and intentions, provides the framework
for action. It shall be approved by the company's management and be relevant
to the organisation and its operations. When the organisation is part of a larger
one, its sub-policy should not be in conflict with policies at higher levels, but
should provide more detail and be relevant to individual locations.

The policy shall include commitment to environmental protection, prevention of


pollution, compliance with environmental legislation, and continual
improvement.
The supplier shall evaluate its suppliers' environmental performance and set
environmental improvement targets as necessary.

The environmental performance in each stage of the entire supply chain


contributes to the total environmental impact of the final product.

This "cradle to grave" approach adopted by Nokia requires that the


environmental performance of all members of the chain is known and effectively
managed. This ex- tends upstream along the supply chain to suppliers of
components and to the extraction of raw materials. Going downstream this
covers the use of the product, as well as the eventual disposal or recycling of
components or materials.

The supplier shall upon request declare the raw material content of its
products delivered to Nokia.

Customers are placing increasing demands for full material declaration, i.e. the
total raw material content of the product. This demand applies throughout the
whole supply chain. This information is needed in order to utilise the material in
the best possible way, e.g for recycling purposes.

A full material declaration is preferable; from the start a minimum requirement is


a list of environmentally relevant materials according to a list provided by Nokia

End of Life (EoL) practices

The supplier shall upon request provide end of life treatment


recommendations for its products.

Producer responsibility will require the producer to take back and recycle certain
types of end products at the end of their useful lives. Recycling can mean one of
several options, e.g. reuse, recycling, refurbishment or conversion.

In order to manage the recycling process and increase the eco-efficiency of the
process, it is necessary for us to have the relevant data on the raw materials and
treatment of the components in our products.

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