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Apple edges closer to green goals
News Apple touted its new MacBooks unveiled on Tuesday as the "industry's greenest notebooks," and on reduction of toxic chemicals they may be. The notebooks do seem to lead the industry in the elimination of toxic chemicals by having a mercury-free LCD...
[October 15, 2008, 9:41]
HP investigates Greenpeace toxic claims
News HP and Apple have come top in an investigation into the levels of toxic chemicals used in the production of market-leading laptops. The report released on Monday, and conducted by an independent Danish laboratory, showed that HP's Pavilion dv4000...
[September 20, 2006, 17:45]
Greenpeace clashes with Apple over toxic waste
News The environmental track records of Apple and Lenovo have been singled out for criticism by campaigning group Greenpeace in a report into the toxic chemicals used by the technology industry. Rather than focusing on recycling, the group claims that...
[August 29, 2006, 13:00]
Greenpeace: IT giants must turn greener
News Speaking the day after it slammed HP for dragging its feet with clearing toxic chemicals, including BFRs from the production line, Greenpeace said most vendors are failing to meet even the most basic environmental requirements.
[November 18, 2005, 16:50]
Apple is not green enough, says campaigner
News The group claims that most companies have demonstrated some commitment to more environmentally friendly manufacturing processes such as eliminating the use of toxic chemicals. We are witnessing a global shift towards greener PCs with Acer and...
[December 6, 2006, 12:38]
Lenovo trumps Apple in green-tech ranking
News Rather than focusing on recycling, environmentally conscious customers should focus on the toxic chemicals used by tech suppliers, Greenpeace claimed. According to Greenpeace, Lenovo has made "progress on all criteria but lost points for not having...
[April 5, 2007, 9:22]
EU software patents: the lesson of victory
Talkback Its called REACH (Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals).basically forcing EU chemical companies to take the toxic, yes toxic chemicals out of their products when a safer alternative exists and encouraging those to develop new...
[February 4, 2005, 0:36]
The fight against tech pollution
News There are hundreds of different chemicals that are used in semiconductor manufacturing, many of which are highly toxic individually, and when you mix them together it creates a toxic cocktail that has never been even superficially studied.
[April 26, 2002, 11:24]
Chinese will pay most for green PCs
News Greenpeace claimed a small victory recently when the world’s largest PC maker, Dell, announced plans to phase out the use of two key groups of hazardous chemicals from its equipment. Dell’s decision to remove these harmful chemicals reflects a move...
[June 28, 2006, 17:25]
Toxic tech threatening developing world
News Manufacturers have got to get toxic chemicals out of electronic goods, governments have got to start enforcing international law and we consumers have got to be a lot more careful about what our local recycler is really doing.
[October 26, 2005, 9:45]
Greenpeace chastises 'toxic' IT industry
News At the launch of a report entitled Greenpeace Electronics Survey 2007, the organisation also criticised companies for the continued use of toxic chemicals in their products. All of the products surveyed contained brominated flame retardants (BFRs...
[March 5, 2008, 15:15]
HP defends green credentials ahead of protest
News The company began removing ozone-depleting chemicals from its products and factories in the 1980s. The environmental activist group plans to demonstrate at HP's headquarters in Palo Alto, California, on Tuesday to pressure the company into phasing...
[December 6, 2005, 8:05]
DeadFish
Downloads A chemical tanker for a large American corporation, after an unfortunate accident with a sword fish, has spilled millions of gallons of toxic chemicals into the ocean. Thankfully, the chemicals separate after a few hours in water, but before they...
[August 19, 2003, 8:00]
IBM faces cancer victims in court
News In the absence of hard industrywide data, Hernandez and Moore's case is focused on specifics, telling stories of continual exposure to chemicals recognised as toxic, chemical poisoning, and a lack of response from IBM.
[November 4, 2003, 8:20]
Apple apologises for environmental modesty
Blog Comment A note of comparison — Some electronics companies, whose names you know, still rely on RoHS exemptions and use these toxic chemicals in their products today. There’s one toxic substance that some companies still ship by the pound, and that’s the...
[May 3, 2007, 14:48]
Tackling the problem of high-tech trash
News She turned to the so-called toxics release inventory — a report on the toxic chemicals that the EPA requires companies to provide when they release over a certain volume of toxins in the form of smoke or liquid.
[July 7, 2006, 12:35]
HP pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions
News In August, for example, PC makers Apple and Lenovo were taken to task in a report by Greenpeace on toxic chemicals used in the technology industry. The issue of chemicals used to create various technological products by companies, as well as their...
[November 9, 2006, 10:16]
Should PC makers recycle wares?
News The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition is also seeking a phase-out of several toxic chemicals used in the production of computers and semiconductors. These methods all threaten to release a variety of toxic substances including plastics, lead, mercury...
[June 24, 1999, 6:28]
PC manufacturers up recycling plans
News Elements such as mercury and lead, and other more complex chemicals, aren't generally considered dangerous when PCs and printers are in use. But environmentalists for years have warned of the potentially toxic effect of those ingredients when the...
[April 23, 2003, 10:43]
Greenpeace says iPhone ain't green
Blog The findings are detailed in the report, "Missed call: the iPhone's hazardous chemicals" You can find the whole report here - together with some funky YouTube videos: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/iphone-s-hazardous-chemicals
[October 15, 2007, 20:53]
