Apple Stylish - But Not Green April 4, 2007
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Greenpeace has ranked Apple last – again – in its quarterly ranking of those companies that love our little blue and green spinning ball, and those that don’t.
A little harsh, perhaps, but the Greenpeace ratings – which Apple disagrees with – has to do with companies’ policies on recycling and the use of toxic content in their products.
Lenovo toppled Nokia from the number one spot but Apple stayed firmly rooted to the bottom of the barrel. Greenpeace even has a ‘Green My Apple’ campaign going for those of you that love Apple kit but would like them to be greener. The report said:
“For a company that claims to lead on product design, it is perhaps surprising to find Apple languishing at the bottom of the scorecard. While other laggards have moved upwards in the Guide, Apple has made no changes to its policies or practices since the launch of the Guide in August 2006. The company scores badly on almost all criteria.”
Unsurprisingly, Apple has denied the report's findings. You can read the full report here and make up your own mind.-Martin Lynch
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Isn't it supposed to be Google who have installed solar panels on every building of their campus?
Greedpeace are just sore because Apple wouldn't contribute to their campaign funds.
Its all about the money. If Apple donated some cold hard cash to Greenpeace they would stop bribing them with this sort of disinformation.
Apple are no worse than any other manufacturer. Apple have had a good history of environmental concern, for example they were the first in the industry to stop using CFCs to clean their circuit boards and brown boxes (what happened to those?), unlike some of their manufacturing partners in China however.
Making electronics goods is inherently polluting, its unavoidable - everything is produced using some sort of chemical or another. Any computer maker that professes to be wholly clean is either deluded or doesn't make anything themselves.
I wonder how organisationt not taking money form corporations or governments and only individuals (namely Greenpeace) can be after money from Apple. That is total nonsence.