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Greenpeace Sets Captain Kirk On HP

Greenpeace Sets Captain Kirk On HP

Earlier this week, Hewlett-Packard employees received a surprise – every one of them received a voicemail from actor William Shatner, best known for his role as Captain Kirk on Star Trek.

"This is William Shatner speaking," it said in part. "You, HP, promised me a toxic-free computer by 2009. Now my friends at Greenpeace tell me that I’ll have to wait till 2011. What’s up with that?"

It’s all part of a Greenpeace campaign to remind HP of its promise to make computers that are free of brominated flame retardants and PVC plastic by this year. HP has put back that target to 2011.

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Greenpeace Thumps HP, Dell, and Lenovo in Latest E-Waste Ratings

Greenpeace Thumps HP, Dell, and Lenovo in Latest E-Waste Ratings

Environmental watchdog group Greenpeace has released the latest update to its Guide to Greener Electronics, highlighting how major consumer electronics manufacturers are working to reduce and eliminate toxic substances and chemicals from their offerings. And while previous editions of the Greenpeace guide have picked on media darling Apple, the latest edition shifts PC makers Lenovo, HP, and Dell towards the red end of the scale for failing to keep promised to phase out toxic chemicals during 2009.

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Greenpeace Still Not in Love with Apple

Greenpeace Still Not in Love with Apple

Despite a new ad campaign touting the recyclable nature and energy-efficient properties of its MacBooks, Apple has still slipped to competitors on the list of green electronics manufacturers published by the environmental group Greenpeace. The latest list ranked Apple below 13 other manufacturers including HP, Sony, Panasonic, Motorola, and class leader Nokia.

According to Greenpeace, Apple has made a number of positive changes including removed brominated flame retardants and PVC from its latest iPods and MacBooks, but needs to commit to removing them entirely to score more points. It also lags behind competitors in the recycling category. Greenpeace awarded Apple a total score of 4.3, compared to 6.9 for competitor Nokia.

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Greenpeace Loves The New iPods

Greenpeace Loves The New iPods

Apple has changed its iPods and Greenpeace couldn’t be happier. The environmental organization has come out with praise for Apple as it’s eliminated PVC and BVRs – brominated flame retardants – from the new models announced this week.

"Greenpeace believes that the latest-generation iPods are significantly less toxic than before," it said in a statement.

"Further, it shows – once again – that there is absolutely no reason why a high-performing electronics product needs to be toxic in order to be popular, effective and affordable – these are the cheapest iPods yet."

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Nintendo Not Very Green

Nintendo Not Very Green

It’s not easy being green, but these days it’s important. That’s why the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics is important. It ranks 18 electronics companies each quarter on the “greenness” of their products and production process.

Now Greenpeace has brought in new guidelines, and as a result, most companies have seen their rankings fall, but none more so than Nintendo, which scored below all others in the new survey.

And that’s caused a bit of claim and counter-claim.

According to the BBC, Nintendo said it simply hadn’t responded to Greenpeace requests to provide data and was then classed as “ungraded.”

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Greenpeace Goes After Game Consoles

In recent years, environmental watchdog group Greenpeace has had some success shaming major electronics manufacturers into adopting—at least on the surface—more environmentally-friendly policies by ranking technology companies in terms of their manufacturing techniques and recycling programs, along with other factors. While companies like Nokia and Lenovo have received some limited praise from Greenpeace, media darling Apple has been repeatedly slammed, both for its computers and iPod lines and even the iPhone.  Read more...

Greenpeace Ranks Lenovo Most Eco-Friendly

In a new report, environmental activist group Greenpeace has ranked Chinese computer maker Lenovo as the most eco-friendly company in the technology industry, with the company leaping from near the bottom of the organization’s rankings to the top. And what about media darling Apple? Greenpeace still gives the Cupertino computer and consumer electronics maker extremely low marks.

Greenpeace’s study examines how large electronics manufacturers use toxic chemicals in their products and manufacturing processes, and looks at the companies’ actions to recycle products. Although Greenpeace isn’t quite willing to classify any technology manufacturer as “green,” it is pleased that at least some companies appear to be taking ecological considerations into account when formulating their policies…in part to improve their eco-friendly rankings. Companies are given a ranking from 1 to 10, with 10 being the most eco-friendly.  Read more...

Greenpeace Ranks Tech Companies

Environmental watchdog and activism group Greenpeace has updated its report card on the manufacturing and recycling practices of computer and mobile manufacturers. Greenpeace ranks companies’ policies and processes on two interrelated criteria: action taken to remove hazardous chemicals and materials from their products, and their efforts to recycle and take back products once they become obsolete.

At the top of Greenpeace’s list—but still not firmly in the organization’s "green" criteria—is Finlands’s Nokia, which ranked well across all areas, but which Greenpeace feels still needs to set clear timelines for phasing out PVC (PolyVinyl Chloride) from its processes. Motorola jumped from next-to-last to fourth place overall, largely on the basis of public commitments to convert to eco-friendly processes. Greenpeace also reports that computer makers Acer and Lenovo are promised to remove hazardous materials from their products.  Read more...

Survey Finds Green Computing Gaining Ground

A new study conducted by Ipsos-Mori (PDF) on behalf of Greenpeace International of consumers in nine countries finds consumers are generally willing to pay more for an environmentally-friendly PC, as opposed to a less-expensive machine containing more toxic chemicals and other components which end up as hazardous waste.

For the survey, Ipsos Mori interviewed roughly 1,000 people in each of nine countries (India, Great Britain, Thailand, China, Mexico, Poland, the Philippines, Brazil, and Germany) and found, in countries where PC ownership of survey respondents was high enough to be stiatistically signficant, consumers would pay from £32 (Germany) to £124 (Mexico) ($58 to $226) extra for a more environmentally friendly PC. the survey also foun that some 49 percent of respondents feel that manufacturers should bear responsibility for hazardous waste from discarded PC and electronics products.  Read more...

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