The Greenpeace Guide to Who's Being Green

The latest version of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics (they do one every year) lets us know which electronics manufacturers are being kind to the earth and which ones could care less. Things that make you fall into that second shameful group are using environmentally unfriendly materials, power guzzling batteries and producing masses of non-biodegradable electronic waste. As you can see from the Greenpeace green-O-meter, Nintendo is by far the biggest offender, while Nokia sits pretty on top of their clean, green world...

Greenpeace does this list every year because the world is consuming more and more electronic products, causing a dangerous explosion in toxic-chemical-containing e-waste and heavy metals that cannot be disposed of or recycled safely.

These potentially dangerous mountains of obsolete electronic products will keep growing toward the sky unless electronics corporations that profit from making and selling the so not green devices face up to their responsibilities.

While pressing the leading offending electronics companies to change, Greenpeace wants to show it is possible to make clean, durable products that can be upgraded, recycled, or disposed of safely and don't end up as hazardous waste in someone's backyard.

Get more info about the campaign here.

Comments (3)

This list is over 1 year old but it is also heavily flawed.

All GreenPeace did was look at the companies corporate website and see what they had listed in their environmental section. They didnt do any research about what the companies were actually doing and gave a 0 score (rather than an N/A) to companies that had none listed (Nintendo)

This is very lazy BS propaganda plain and simple.

posted by Nesagwa on November 28th 2008 at 11:16am
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Oops, I guess this isnt a year old, sorry.

My other point still stands though.

posted by Nesagwa on November 28th 2008 at 11:17am
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Yeah, their methodology is suspect. I think a green ranking is a great idea, but how to assign those rankings is a complicated subject.

posted by sunspot42 on December 2nd 2008 at 12:41am
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