Greenpeace: Apple still not green enough
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 6, 2006 at 3:06pm
Greenpeace has published its latest “Guide to Greener Electronics” published today, indicating a marked improvement in manufacturing processes over the last three months from leading companies except for Apple, reports the Tech Digest.
Nokia continues to hold the top spot, with progressive policies on both its chemicals policy and disposal of electronic waste. Apple is awarded the last position because the company has made no improvements to its policies or practices since the ranking was first released three months ago, per the Tech Digest. Here’s the new rankings (with score) 1. Nokia (7.3/10) 2. Dell (7/10) 3. Fujitsu-Siemens (6/10) 4. Motorola (6/10) 5. Sony Ericsson (5.7/10) 6. HP (5.7/10) 7. Acer (5.3/10) 8. Lenovo (5.3/10) 9. Sony (5/10) 10. Panasonic (4.3/10) 11. LGE (4/10) 12. Samsung (4/10) 13. Toshiba (3.7/10) 14. Apple (2.7/10)
In the previous “Guide to Greener Electronics,” released in August, Dell and Nokia scraped a barely respectable score while Apple, Motorola and Lenovo flunked the test to finish bottom of the class. The ranking is important because the amounts of toxic e-waste is growing everyday and it often ends up dumped in the developing world, according to Greenpeace (a non-profit organization with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific). Reducing the toxic chemicals in products reduces pollution from old products and makes recycling safer, easier and cheaper, the environment agency says.
However, in a Roughly Drafted editorial, Daniel Eran Dilger says Greenpeace has lied about Apple in the past. “After spending at least $50,000 on expensive lab work, Greenpeace ignored the data they discovered to instead retreat back into sensationalism, fear mongering, and deception to present ‘Toxic Chemicals in Your Laptop—Exposed!’,” he says..
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
Rainy Day Says:
Daniel has written several pieces exposing the lies which Greenpeace is telling about Apple in a sensationalist effort to draw attention (and thus donations) to themselves.
To me, Greenpeace is nothing but lying fanatics and i will never again pay any attention to anything they say. I respect the Sierra Club a lot more, and they rate Apple very highly.
Posted on December 07, 2006