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Apple ranked lowest on environmental care
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about 1 year ago about Apple
According to a December 2006 Greenpeace report: “The company scores badly on almost all criteria. Apple fails to embrace the precautionary principle, withholds its full list of regulated substances and provides no timelines for eliminating toxic polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and no commitment to phasing out all uses of brominated lame retardants (BFRs). Apple performs poorly on product take back and recycling, with the exception of reporting on the amounts of its electronic waste recycled.”
Apple is one of the The report is available at http://www.greenpeace.org/internation…
See also http://www.greenmyapple.com/
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Have a look at Electronic Product Assessment Tool
submitted by bj about 1 year ago
The US Green Electronics Council has put together a very good Electronic Product Assessment Tool (EPEAT) – www.epeat.net that provides much more objective assessment of the environmental impact of electronic products. EPEAT evaluates electronic products according to three tiers of environmental performance – Bronze, Silver and Gold. The complete set of performance criteria in IEEE 1680 includes 23 required criteria and 28 optional criteria in 8 categories. To qualify for acceptance as an EPEAT product, the product must conform to all the required criteria. Manufacturers may pick and choose among the optional criteria to boost their EPEAT “score” to achieve a higher level as follows.
Incidentaly Apple’s Desktops actually score higher than Dell’s!
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