According to Greenpeace, Chinese computer maker Lenovo is the world's most eco-friendly electronics firm (scoring 8 out of 10) while Apple is last (scoring 2.7 out of 10) of the 14 profiled. The quarterly report ranks firms by how green their production processes are and what they do to recycle hardware they sell. Lenovo, which bought IBM's consumer electronics division in 2005, offers takeback services for any broken or obsolete merchandise in all the nations where its products are sold. Lenovo lost marks for still using some of the most toxic substances to make its products. Greenpeace criticised Apple for not setting a deadline for eliminating some toxic chemicals from its production processes.
The study, which was first compiled in 2006, looks at how big electronics firms make their hardware to see if they use toxic chemicals in the production process and scrutinises what they do to recycle goods when customers have stopped using them. The campaigning group said that overall scores for the hi-tech firms it profiled had improved (nine out of 14 now score more than five out of 10) but it shied away from describing any hardware maker as "green". Iza Kruszewska, Greenpeace international toxics campaigner, noted that in the last 12 months, firms have started to act rather than just issue statements of intent.
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The study, which was first compiled in 2006, looks at how big electronics firms make their hardware to see if they use toxic chemicals in the production process and scrutinises what they do to recycle goods when customers have stopped using them. The campaigning group said that overall scores for the hi-tech firms it profiled had improved (nine out of 14 now score more than five out of 10) but it shied away from describing any hardware maker as "green". Iza Kruszewska, Greenpeace international toxics campaigner, noted that in the last 12 months, firms have started to act rather than just issue statements of intent.
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but damn. Don't they look pretty
but damn. Don't they look pretty
Are you saying the ThinkPad isn't pretty?
but damn. Don't they look pretty
Are you saying the ThinkPad isn't pretty?
Apple looks fine if you like the gayness style, a black notebook suit better for machos ;-)
Just offer. Noone will do it because resale on macs is so good
That must really hurt -- being criticised by a legally toothless organisation of idealists (who don't mind breaking the law from time to time, or sailing their ships around the world, which, I presume, must run on fresh air) who are unable to realise that we're not going to return to the days of living in caves, just to appease their really quite bizarre agendas.
Last edited by SniperX on 05 Apr 2007 - 09:57
http://www.apple.com/environment/
Apple HAS done things to make their products eco-friendly and stuff, according to them, but they just aren't doing what Greenpeace wants.
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A company doesnt need a page explaining what you are doing to be eco, you should just do it anyway. Its just Apple trying to look good on their site.
Apple people might hate PC (Windows mainly) users, and visa versa. But at the end of the day, its Apple who are destroying the planet the most out of these companies.
No, using "its" implies control. They have control over which companies perform the manufacturing and they can influence how they build their products.
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