Greenpeace

The latest Greenpeace report on environmental friendliness of consumer electronics manufacturer, has shown promising progress, but some companies are refusing to participate.
The organization sent questionnaires to 20 companies in the chemicals in the manufacture of personal computers, mobile phones, monitors and other computer equipment and data from all but two, Apple, and Philips is the only company that refused to supply data was used.
Asus has the greenest of the surveyed companies were ahead in both tables, the list of notebooks with gratitude UL30 and monitors for the HF-VW-247H. Dell has very poor, with the Latitude 2110 netbook as the dirtiest and worst Smartphone Aero. India's Wipro manufacturers also scored poorly on both desktops and laptops.
"Our survey found that electronics manufacturers have made significant progress in recent years in the manufacture of products that are free from chemicals more dangerous, more energy efficient and easier to be returned for reuse and recycling," said Renee Blanchard said Greenpeace campaign Toxic .
"This report gives the industry to do what he does best, competing for a new perspective and innovation in environmental policy."
In general, the industry was accelerating the elimination of two polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and brominated flame retardants and other toxic chemicals and energy consumption by equipment faster than the improvement expected of.
The company even without two key areas: money laundering mechanisms and the establishment of longer duration. In addition, some comapnies that very limited information available - for example, Lenovo only provides data on their screens, not expand its range of PCs.
"The electronics industry, organic products and practices for the benefit of consumers, communities and the environment required in general," said Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association.
"In the last three years we have made great strides in our environmental efforts, the creation of more environmentally friendly products, improving speak of the energy efficiency performance further our commitment to recycling electronic products. We know that there is much to do, and we will Initiatives in 2011 and to pursue further. "

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