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Greenpeace launched the 'Guide to Greener Electronics', which ranks companies on their use of harmful chemicals and electronic waste recycling.The scorecard ranks the 14 top mobile and PC producers and currently all fail to get a green ranking.
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"The scorecard will provide a dynamic tool to green the electronics sector by setting off a race to the top. By taking back their discarded products, companies will have incentives to eliminate harmful substances used in their products, since this is the only way they can ensure safe reuse and recycling of electronic waste," said Iza Kruszewska, Greenpeace International toxics campaigner.
Nokia and Dell share the top spot in the ranking. They believe that as producers they should bear individual responsibility for taking back and reusing or recycling their own-brand discarded products. Nokia leads the way on eliminating toxic chemicals, since the end of 2005 all new models of mobiles are free of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and all new components to be free of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from the start of 2007. Dell has also set ambitious targets for eliminating these harmful substances from their products.
Third place goes to HP, followed by Sony Ericsson (4th), Samsung (5th), Sony (6th), LG Electronics (7th), Panasonic (8th), Toshiba (9th), Fujitsu Siemens Computers (10th), Apple (11th), Acer (12th) and Motorola (13th).
Lenovo is in bottom position. It earns points for chemicals management and providing some voluntary product take back programmes, but it needs to do better on all criteria.
"It is disappointing to see Apple ranking so low in the overall guide. They are meant to be world leaders in design and marketing, they should also be world leaders in environmental innovation." said Kruszewska.
Companies have the opportunity to move towards a greener ranking as the guide will be updated every quarter. However penalty points will be deducted from overall scores if Greenpeace finds a company lying, practising double standards or other corporate misconduct. For now, companies are scored solely on information publicly available on their global websites.
The scoring is weighted more heavily on the use of toxic substances in production rather than criteria on recycling, because until the use of harmful substances is eliminated in products, it is impossible to secure 'safe', toxic-free recycling. www.greenpeace.org
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i wish them tree hugging hippie people would get proper jobs..
really really really winds me up..
i love it when they go on about animal testing.. i shut them up with one simple line..
the animal or you..
they have no come back 
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axxxr
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or as JoJo would say: \"Return of the Comeback\" 
Greenpeace does tend to take things too far with their animal rights issues...i'm all for people not wearing real furs and planting more trees just like the next person, but if we went by their rules completely as they would like us to do we would back in the bronze age.
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i dont get it though..
fur is bad but leather is ok!?
how does that work?
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axxxr
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I think its because fur comes from some protected species of animals..and leather obviously comes from the animals we eat cows/sheep ect....
come to think of it....why can't we wear chicken skin? 
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cuz in the sun it would get a bit crispy and you might eat it...
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Mulder7
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Well im not up for their strong actions against animal testing, but they have a point here at least. Im a 'green' person, I recycle and try to eat organic food etc etc but electronic companies should have more responsibility with their products and how they treat the environment and this sort of guide will be a starting block for this and fair play to them for bringing this issue up to electronic companies.
This whole phenomena is a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a government agenda.
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