Apple is the most polluting electronics company according to Greenpeace

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Apple, Sony, LG and Panasonic are the dirtiest companies in the PC/mobile phone space, according to Greenpeace.

As people change their mobile phones and computers frequently, engineering green technologies into these products at the design stage becomes ever more critical.

Lenovo, the Chinese company that took over a chunk of IBM gets top marks, followed by Nokia.

Some companies are still using phthalates in their products for example. These chemicals have serious implications for human sexual reproduction and certain cancers and are all pervasive – they get into water systems, the food chain, etc.

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/guide-to-greener-electronics.pdf

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enda1

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Apple is the most polluting electronics company according to Greenpeace

Greenpeace are media whores according to me. The usual bull. Just looking for attention.

atilladehun

apples responce

http://www.apple.com/uk/hotnews/agreenerapple/

lostexpectation

enda1 wrote:

Greenpeace are media whores according to me. The usual bull. Just looking for attention.

ouch is it not interesting to know all the **** that in your tech products?

DadaKopf

enda1 wrote:

Greenpeace are media whores according to me. The usual bull. Just looking for attention.

You own one of these products, yes?

I own a Mac, and I know that Apple is a polluting manufacturer on account of some specific substances used in production. It's a black mark on my part, but I'm willing to own my contribution to environmental degradation.

Lucky for me I do all I can to reduce my eco footprint in most other ways.

I also can't see how this report is a bad thing, or should be ignored. Greenpeace aren't the only ones saying this. And it only creates greater demand for greener products. Stage one: kill built-in obsolesence.

I have a Dualit toaster. I have is because I know when it breaks I can get it fixed without ever having to replace it, causing more unnecessary rubbish. And it can be recycled 99%.

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The greenest PCs are the ones running Linux. I put SUSE 10,2 Linux on an old Dell laptop workstation that previously ran on Windows XP. It runs far faster with Linux and the cooling fans almost never run above the lowest background level. The same laptop used to sweat under XP, consuming larger amounts of power and run the fans at high speed when one had a few programs running or visited websites with poorly written code / carrying lots of animated crappy banner adverts – such as the Indo or Irish Times websites.

You can rejuvenate an old PC (rather than sending it for recycling) by replacing Windows with Linux. I also find the internet browsing experience using Firefox on Linux superior to anything running on Windows. Most applications are free – web server, OpenOffice (free equivalent to MS Office) and use open standards – rather than Microsoft proprietary “standards” which change every few years.

Linux is the best recycling tool for old PCs, and is by far the best server software. Companies can dump Windows SharePoint server and use the free Drupal Linux based platform to create a custom made corporate internet. Save a fortune and create a system that is infinitely scalable, and totally customisable to your organisation, with excellent performance from older or recycled hardware.

Save the planet and save money. Upgrade to Linux!

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Sonnenblumen

DadaKopf wrote:

You own one of these products, yes?

I own a Mac, and I know that Apple is a polluting manufacturer on account of some specific substances used in production. It's a black mark on my part, but I'm willing to own my contribution to environmental degradation.

Lucky for me I do all I can to reduce my eco footprint in most other ways.

I also can't see how this report is a bad thing, or should be ignored. Greenpeace aren't the only ones saying this. And it only creates greater demand for greener products. Stage one: kill built-in obsolesence.

I have a Dualit toaster. I have is because I know when it breaks I can get it fixed without ever having to replace it, causing more unnecessary rubbish. And it can be recycled 99%.

You do not require a toaster to make toast, unless of course you have no grill oven. But then again you could be more conscientious and adjust your diet to be more 'green' , less exploitation of valuable resources, less recycling, and probably a better waistline. No that's an all win!!