Guide to Green Electronics
Greenpeace International has recently ranked major electronics companies on their use of chemicals and recycling programs (if any) for their products. The findings were startling, and may make you think twice before buying that Motorola RAZR or a product from Lenovo (who recently acquired IBM's Thinkpad line).
Greenpeace looked at 14 major companies and ranked them on a comprehensive scale based on many catagories that deal with the use and policies regarding using chemicals to recycling initiatives and programs.
At the top are Nokia and Dell. These companies "believe that as producers they should bear individual responsibility for taking back and reusing or recycling their own-brand discarded products." Nokia also stopped the use of PVC (polyvinyl chloride) and BFRs (brominated flame retardants). Dell is trying to eliminate the use of these in their products as well.
The article goes on to say that "with a [an is implied] average score of only 4/10 it is clear that the electronics industry has a long way to go before it can make any claims to being a green industry."
The scores were as follows:
Nokia - 7
Dell - 7
Hewlett Packard - 5.7
Sony Ericsson - 5.3
Samsung - 5
Sony 4.7
LGE - 4.3
Panasonic - 3.3
Toshiba - 3
Fujitsu-Siements - 3
Apple - 2.7
Acer - 2.3
Motorola - 1.7
Lenovo - 1.3
You can read the full article at Your Guide to Green Electronics (or in Adobe PDF format) and view the detailed explanations and ratings for each company.
| Who: | Greenpeace International, a non-profit organization that focuses on and campaigns for worldwide environmental issues. |
| What: | Greenpeace International is a non-profit organization. At this time, we will assume these facts are accurate. |
| Where: | There are no links for further information. |
| When: | August 25, 2006 |
| Why: | At this time, there is no other guide or source. |
| You: | Travis Dos Santos-Tam '09 |
| Geography: | Global |
| Type: | Data |
| Educational: | 1 |