Using information technology
to make recycling and environmental management
easier and cheaper.
Funded by the US EPA Science to Acheive Results Program
Using information technology
to make recycling and environmental management
easier and cheaper.
Funded by the US EPA Science to Acheive Results Program
Outreach
Reinvent Recycling with Cash Incentives and 'Smart Trash' - Digital Communities, September 18 2009
E-waste
R&D Act - Testimonty to House Science Committee, February 11
2009.
Environmentally-Friendly
Laptops - inteview on ABC's Money
Matters, July 25, 2007.
Publications
“A
Universal Code for Environmental Management of Products,” V. M.
Thomas. Resources, Conservation and
Recycling 53: 400-408, 2009.
"Radio-Frequency Identification: Environmental Applications," V. M. Thomas. White Paper, Foresight in Governance Project. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2008.
“A Universal Code for Lifecycle Management of Products,” V. M.
Thomas. Proc. IEEE Int'l Symp.
Electronics and the Environment, 2007.
“Toward
Intelligent Recycling: A Proposal to Link Bar Codes to
Recycling Information,” S. Saar, M. Stutz, and V. M. Thomas. Resources, Conservation, and Recycling
41(1):15-21, 2004.
"Product Self-Management: Evolution in Recycling and Reuse," V. M. Thomas. Environmental Science and Technology 37 (23) 5297-5302, 2003.
"Toward Trash That Thinks: Product Tags for Environmental Management," S. Saar and V. Thomas. Journal of Industrial Ecology 6(2):133-146, 2003.
"Advanced Tags for Product Recycling," S. Saar and V. Thomas. Proc.
IEEE Int'l. Symp. Electronics and Environment, May 2002 (pdf).