Yesterday's battle between Greenpeace and Apple had the former publicly chastising the latter for its continued use of
hazardous chemicals in its iPhone. While they conceded that Apple is compliant with Europe's
RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) standard, they lambasted Cupertino for its continued use of PVC and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) which, according to Greenpeace, "suggests that Apple is not making early progress towards its 2008 commitment to phase-out all uses of these materials." This morning, an Apple spokesperson told
Macworld that, "Like all Apple products worldwide, iPhone complies with RoHS, the world's toughest restrictions on toxic substances in electronics.
As we have said, Apple will voluntarily eliminate the use of PVC and BFRs by the end of 2008." Sure, you can fault Apple for not being as environmentally friendly as PVC-free Nokia, or Motorola and Sony Ericsson who offer some devices with BFR-free components. However, Greenpeace shouldn't feign surprise at what they found.
posted Oct 16th 2007 4:05AM
green peace.
good with the plannet, not too good with the listening.
sounds like the frustration implied by the "what part of "end of 2008" didn't you understand?" didn't come from apple but from thomas...
*shrugs*
i know, i know, you
But Thomas works for Apple. Right?
hmmm... the 'heart' didn't come up. probably something to do with the codes.
just saying i know u heart apple, that's all ;)
Owned.
Greenpeace used to be good for the planet, now they're just bullying corporations for bad press since the public has become aware of the environmental issues and they want to increase membership and money collected.
enviromental issues like global warming? lol
I used to admire green pace, but now I think that some times they chose the "targets" more for the media impact than for the environment impact of the products!
...add what's up with the white leather looking gloves? Seems to me they're not too safe for handling "hazardous" materials.
Greenpeace - Get some translators, you guys clearly have little to no grasp of the English language. Or you can't count for that matter.
"2007 or 2008? Who cares? They're the same!"
Considering the fact that Apple are trying to offer "BFR-free components" by the end of next year, why are they now introducing new products which contain BFR now?
I think the issue here is that they have been pulled up for using BFRs and seem to be doing nothing about it.
This is just pathetic on Apples part. Just clean up your act!
I agree with you, Apple need to clean up their act, but so does every other consumer electronics manufacturer in the world.
As others have said, Greenpeace are targetting Apple above the others because their iPod devices are so ubiquitous - it's the quickest way to get the media attention. Not that media attention for important causes is a bad thing, but Greenpeace could apply a more even-handed approach.
I wonder how many people will whine when Apple brings out the iPhone v2 with greener components and makes their iPhone v1 'obsolete'.
I built an engineering project out of PVC yesterday.. I hope I don't die.. I touched it :(
oh greanpeace...
Seems like the only way Greenpeace ever gets any love from the press is when they go after Apple.
So after judging Apple by comparing them to industry claims (instead of what the rest of the industry is actually doing right now), thereby forcing Apple to make claims of its own, suddenly Greenpeace doesn't care about claims and timetables and despite praising Apple's decisions they've now decided to completely ignore them.
Greenpeace should hold a seminar in how to blow your credibility and teach everyone not to take you seriously.
People took Greenpeace seriously?