Environmental impact can be roughly divided into the production, use, and disposal stages.@ In the home appliances field, it is during use that environmental effects are most marked.@ In response, energy-saving measures have virtually halved air conditioner and refrigerator electric power consumption, and resource-saving measures have decreased the water consumption of fully automatic washing machines to approximately half.@ Technological developments in the field of television sets have also begun to show effects from the manufacturing through disposal stages.
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