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Greenpeace slams Nintendo
WEIRDIE BEARDIES at Greenpeace have taken time out from chasing Japanese whale boats, er, scientific vessels, to go on about how green electronics makers really are.
In its report, Guide to Greener Electronics, Greenpeace ranks Nokia as the greenest outfit on the planet, while it slams Nintendo, which does not know what to do with its Wii, as the worst.
However Greenpeace seems to get a mite tetchy when it comes to company marketing. It has been giving points to companies that promise to do well, but taking points off if it was just marketing spin.
Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Lenovo all dropped in the rankings for failing to live up to public promises to eliminate polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from their computers by the end of 2009.
It noted that HP formally pushed back its phase-out of the chemicals to 2011. Dell - at unlucky 13th place - will fail to meet the 2009 deadline, while Lenovo changed to a 2010 deadline, which Greenpeace claimed will be dropped.
The so called Green Apple dropped into 11th place from ninth because, while it had some success in making products completely BFR-free and "virtually free of PVC", it was still using "unreasonably high threshold limits for BFRs and PVC in products that are allegedly PVC-/BFR-free."
The Vole was told off for not having a better customer e-waste return policy.
Samsung got flowers for producing PVC-free LCD TVs and lowering the overall amount of toxins in its other products by significant amounts. Sony Ericsson moved up from fifth place to third for improving its energy efficiency.
While Nintendo got points for switching to PVC-free internal wiring in its gaming consoles, the rest of its machine was a toxic waste site.
Nokia, with its take-back program for used phones, got first place. µ
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Greenpeace doesn't chase whalers any more, they figured out that the money was coming in whether they tried to wave green-hugs at the whalers or not.
The BBC made a mockery of their so-called "protests".
So yeah, Greenpeace, who cares. They obviously don't.
Linus Torvalds is probably about as green as they get. If you don't have to upgrade your computer, than that cuts down on pollution right there. Compare someone using a P3 with Ubuntu with someone who upgraded their stuff 3-5 times to "keep up with innovation."
who cares about greenpeace.
I'm amazed:
a) how often Greenpeace trot out this arrant twaddle
b) how quickly journos forget what a load of twaddle it is
I bet greenpeace doesnt take into effect how much less power the wii uses then most other electronics. That should give it a huge score right there.
Yup, Greenpeace gives you a crappy score (sometimes 0) if you don't bend to their will and invite them in to take a look around.
Don't have the latest buzzwords and logos on your corporate info page? You must be evil polluters!
The fact that Apple got a relatively high ranking for LYING about many of their products is all you need to know about these rankings.
GreenPeace said the same crap last year. Not because Nintendo is bad for the environment. It's because Nintendo refused to participate, and so was given a score of zero by GreenPeace.
I think this Greenpeace gang did not have any idea about nintendo case. They thing all Japanese product is not environmental friendly but Nokia do what nintendo do that is made their product in China for less environmentally friendly manufacturing conditions but with better environmentally ingredients product.
Nokia may well be all flowers and light as far as Greenpeace are concerned but they don't designing intrusive communication systems for dodgy governments.
Lovely people.....not.
Wii, GC, N64 lasts loooong time, because it is a good manufactured product.
SO blame M$ for doing the 3RL X360.
So Wii is more eco friendly. hehehe