Owing to increasing demand of rare metals present in ICT products, it is necessary to promote the rare metal recycling industry from an environmental viewpoint and to prevent climate change. Despite the fact that information for toxic substances is partly indicated, a legal basis and an international standard indicating usage of rare metals is insufficient. In order to address this issue, a newly created study group of environment and climate change at the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) is doing research to develop methodologies for recycling rare metals from ICT products in an eco-friendly way. Under this group, the Republic of Korea has established two international standards related to rare metals present in ICT products. The first is ‘Release of rare metal information for ICT products (ITU-T L.1100)’ and the other is ‘Quantitative and qualitative analysis methods for rare metals (ITU-T L.1101)’. A new proposal for recommending the provision of rare metal information through a label by manufacturers and consumer/recycling businesses has been approved recently and is supposed to be published later in 2016. Moreover, these recommendations are also being extended to IEC, ISO and other standardization organizations and a strategy to reinforce the ability for domestic standardization is being established in accordance with industrial requirements. This will promote efficient recycling of rare metals from ICT products and will help improve the domestic supply of rare metals.

1. 서 론
 2. 희소금속 관련 국제표준
 3. 희소금속 재활용을 위한 ITU-T 국제표준
  3.1. ITU-T 희소금속 표준 로드맵
  3.2. ITU-T L.1100
  3.3. ITU-T L.1101
  3.4. ITU-T L.rareMetal_Lable
 4. 결 론
 감사의 글
 References

• 이미혜(한국생산기술연구원 한국희소금속산업기술센터) | Mi Hye Lee
• 최원정(한국생산기술연구원 한국희소금속산업기술센터) | Won Jung Choi
• 서석준(한국생산기술연구원 한국희소금속산업기술센) | Seok-Jun Seo
• 김범성(한국생산기술연구원 한국희소금속산업기술센터, 과학기술연합대학원 희소소재 및 반도체 패키징 공학) | Bum Sung Kim Corresponding Author