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Greener Electronics – major companies fail to show climate leadership

Posted by jossc — 24 November 2008 at 4:50pm - Comments

The latest edition of our Guide to Greener Electronics has revealed that very few firms are showing true climate leadership. Despite many green claims, major companies like Dell, Microsoft, Lenovo, LG, Samsung and Apple are failing to support the necessary levels of global cuts in emissions and make the absolute cuts in their own emissions that are required to tackle climate change.

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A greener Apple? The iPhone fails to bear green fruit

Posted by bex — 15 October 2007 at 4:19pm - Comments

You might be looking forward to the European launch of Apple's iPhone in November (we were certainly looking forward to the possibility that the iPhone would prove Steve Jobs' newfound commitment to the environment).

Unfortunately, the iPhone's beauty only runs skin deep. A team of scientists got hold of one, dismantled it and uncovered nasty stuff that other phone makers have already stopped using, including two types of hazardous substances:

Our international office has the full story - including a report (pdf) and a slideshow of high quality images.

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Electronics companies clean up their acts

Posted by bex — 20 September 2007 at 2:18pm - Comments

It's that time again; we've just released our latest quarterly Greener Electronics Guide, which ranks manufacturers on their toxics and recycling policies and practices.

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Macs now come in green

Posted by jamie — 3 May 2007 at 11:18am - Comments

Tasty news from Apple

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Steve Jobs makes the MacWorld speech we've been waiting for

Posted by jamie — 9 January 2007 at 5:44pm - Comments

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So Steve Jobs, Apple guru and all-round groovy guy, has made his keynote speech at MacWorld. But there was something missing - no word on what Apple should be doing to sort out the toxics in its iPods, not to mention their shoddy recycling policy. So we've done a little bit of re-editing so we can all hear what Steve should have said.

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