Greenpeace slams Apple

(Note the spelling, Americans!)

If Apple wanted to be so green and yet use aluminium, the least they could do is try and use the recycled stuff. It is said that the aluminium industry just goes round trying to coax people into giving them nicely subsidised energy, with the promise of jobs and prosperity (and perhaps kickbacks) in return, rather than doing the right thing and actually keeping the stuff they've produced in circulation. Breaking this arguably corrupt (and incredibly polluting) cycle would give Apple some genuine brownie points.

Shiny means it's more expensive, shurely, and it must be better because it is shiny. So what that it's thin, will scratch easily because it's a weak metal, and will bend and get dented, looking a wreck in 12 months time. Right now, in the shop window, it's shiny. Ooh shiny.

Now if it was made from Titanium or Unobtanium then that would be cool, and a darker type of shiny, ooh shiny. ;-)

Kerching.

Aluminum requires about 15kWh/kg to produce, which is the same amount of power as a typical refridgerator uses in three or four days -- not exactly the "carbon footprint of texas". The exact environmental impacts of plastics are various and harder to categorize. Is aluminum a perfect material? No, but this article is pure drivel.

And Greenpeace loves slamming Apple because it gets free media attention. No-one cares if Dell is green or not.

Should make them out of uranium, then you get the benefit of theft prevention, possible self powered, and killing off all the idiots that pay too much for inferior kit.

One thing being green, another one is to become paranoid!

I am surprised nobody suggest Apple makes computers form dead apple trees only!

Take an ox and carve a Notebook for Greenpeace folks!

better still send they should go back and live on trees! 


or MAYBE they should design their own computers and show to the world who green they can be!

I am just getting tired of all this green stuff!


Its brushed so its not that brilliant, kind of like MAC users.

My PC, has tempered glass mirrors, and bezel covers, something that a MAC could never have because then the users may see themselves.

Oh snap and not so shiney.

HEY! JOYTEK - Are you a 10 y old? Polaczek or something?? 
if I lived under the rock, well, that would be green! :)

You did not get my point anyway!
I am just tired of GP picking on Apple! yeah I am a fanboi! whatever...

If GP really wants to show the way, instead of just pointing their finger, they should team up with say Dell and produce this Green PC!

Calling me narrow minded? Get some lessons how to smell sarcasm between the lines!
You see, from what I care and know, Apple is actually more innovative and green than most PC manufacturers put together.

Now, let the stones fall on my head! I have said it!




Quote: "And Greenpeace loves slamming Apple because it gets free media attention. No-one cares if Dell is green or not."

Do you know that Dell scores a score of 4.7 which is higher than Apple! And they don't claim that they produce 'green' computers! -_-

Source: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics/electronics/how-the-companies-line-up

"Did you even check if they used green power?"

Yes I did. Some smelters use hydro-electric plants, some use nuclear plants (if you consider those "green"). Even the hydro-electric ones can be controversial: do a search for Alcoa and Iceland for a bit of background research. Generally, "big hydro" can be pretty damaging from an environmental perspective, and I'd be interested to hear about the geological implications for permanently flooding large areas of Iceland. Sure, the nature is pretty harsh up there as it is, but people have to live up there as well. And let us not get started on big hydro projects in, say, China and Turkey, amongst other places.

hey KRIS KLUSEK .... "noodle" ....you better get used to the "green" tech discussion, cause it has just began ..... you are saying you are tired of hearing about it? .... what have you been living under a rock, or something? .... welcome to reality .... resource depletion, energy crisis, peak oil, environmental pollution, global climate change etc ..... truly "green" computing hasn't even started making the rounds yet.... but is inevitable if we are to survive and have our toys to play with too ..... I can't believe how narrow-minded people like you are! .... The only way to make manufacturers realize that the status quo has to change and that we really need new and innovative tech solutions to the global crisis we are facing is to .... as you would put it : "whine about it" ....let them know that if they don't innovate, then we won't buy it. Not a perfect solution, but for the moment an easily do-able one.

Did you even check if they used green power? For all we know the aluminium smelting places use power from such things as niagara falls or other non polluting sources.
Not saying they do, but I bet nobody checked.
Electricity does not have to be that polluting.

Note to the guy about the fridge comparison: that must be some US made hummer fridge, because a normal fridge uses something like 120 to 150 watts but only during the times the motor springs on so that would be 4 days even if it had no insulation and the compressor was on all the time.

I'm waiting for the PC bubble to burst.

There's a better way to use all that Apple scrap. Burn it! 

http://www.burnaluminum.com/