Greenpeace slams HP, Lenovo, and Dell in latest report
By Donald Melanson 
posted March 31st 2009 3:33PM
posted March 31st 2009 3:33PM
HP, Lenovo, and Dell haven't fared too badly in some of Greenpeace's previous e-waste reports, but it looks like three companies have fallen well short of the organization's expectations this time around, with each getting called out for failing to live up to their promises. Specifically, all three had said that they would eliminate vinyl plastic (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) in their products by the end of this year, but they've now apparently told Greenpeace that they won't be able to meet that timeline, and only Lenovo has come forward set a new deadline (the end of 2010). The big winner, on the other hand, is Philips, which has jumped from 15th place to 4th as a result of some new recycling initiatives, prompted at least in part by public pressure. And, as you can see above, Nintendo is once again dead last, although we're pretty sure that's simply a result of sheer mass at this point.
Makes me want to buy Nintendo products even more.
FUCK YOU greenpeace. you bunch of fucking whackos.
This makes me love my Samsung NC10 even more.
Greenpeace, like PETA and critical mass, harms its own cause with hamhanded publicity. These idiots are the reason we don't have tons of zero-emission nuclear plants right now. Nice going, dicks.
Alright, think of it this way. Apple has definitley added many greener features to their laptops, and they almost undeniably deserve a higher ranking. Yet we also pay more for Apple computers so should put higher quality standards on their laptop. For instance, HP probably isn't doing so poorly because of their highest end laptops, and apple doesn't really have low end ones.
Microsoft are not green, shit thats what happens when you rewrite OS code for every new version instead of recycling like Apple. Meh!
Gordon: Sounds about right. For a -total tool-. Yeah, you can assume all you want that you're in the moral right because you're anti-corporate but what tends to make you look more intelligent, or perhaps concerned, is actually bothering to research your opinions before you form them.
People like you are constantly bitching and moaning about how progress 'is destroying the earth' simply because people are profiting from it. This is wrong. This is dead wrong. And before you go slamming me for being conservative, I'm not. Not one bit. I'm just intelligent.
First off, in the time that we've become conscious about how our actions affect the environment we have taken great leaps and bounds in reducing the damage everything we do does to the environment. Companies that legitimately stretch the envelope of what they're allowed to do are reprimanded... by the MARKET. If there was reliable evidence that, say, for every Wii nintendo makes some guy storms out onto the tundra and clubs a baby seal, or someone sprays an acre of forest with arsenic, yeah. That would be a concern. And people would quickly stop buying from them - remember the Nestle baby formula incident in the 90's?
This is almost completely non-scientific pandering to idiots like you based on the 'potential for harm' with no actual evidence of harm done. If someone challenged you to point out the damage done to the environment by Apple laptops, could you? Could you point out a single creature's life that was made worse by apple products? (Please, hold back your fanboy rants.) Yeah, you could say 'well they contain this compound and the batteries are made of this' but that's nothing. Nothing at all. Apple offers a free recycling program designed to neutralize harmful components BEFORE they're disposed of in the wild, and that's a huge step forward. If they just had a huge field out back full of Li-Ion batteries, that would be a different story. What individual users do is not really Apple's problem - the tools are in place.
Shut up and think before you ever speak up against progress. Thanks to idiots like you, THOUSANDS of people and animals die each year from carcinogens released into the atmosphere from coal and oil power plants, and that's a verifiable fact. Just like every other bit of progress you reject because it happened in the name of the 'almighty dollar,' we have a solution in nuclear power which has been completely neutered by morons like you.
If you're not going to bother to learn shit, don't drag your opinions into my facts.
Hey Gordon: props to you for trying to convince some of the mindless consumers to wake up. too bad so few will listen...
You know, I was having a hard time deciding between getting a Sony Vaio or an Hp HDX based on this I'm definitely going to go with the HP. Screw you greenpeace.
Nintendo last? is that because the about of trees they caused to be cut down to print the money they have been collecting from wii and ds sales?
They need to find out that know one cares, all those organizations do is wine and complain in pointless, stupid ways, and never actually get something of *real world value* accomplished. Burning a random boat, yelling like an idiot at a corporation no one already cares about is very sweet, but it doesn't actually accomplish anything..
My faith in humanity is somewhat restored by the practically unanimous dismissal in this thread of the blight on civilization, technology and progress that is Greenpeace.
Ha nice to see Apple sucks at something. Seems everyone thinks they rule at everything, which is not the case.
Fuck Greenpeace
Greenpeace has as much relevence and respectability as my Grandmas blog. Can we stop enabling them here?
Seriously, who cares what greenpeace thinks. Looks like I'll buy HP and Dell now just to piss them off.
@teeth weasel: Was that long-winded ramble supposed to be evidence of your "intelligence"? Please.
I support nuclear power — JUST LIKE YOU, you presumptuous ass — the fact that I disagree with you doesn't make me whatever stereotype you want to conjure up in your empty little head.
Jerk off into your hand, not your keyboard.
Greenpeace is a bunch of dumb tools.
Who gives a hoot in Hell what Greenpeace, the WWF, NOW, etc., think or say? Even reporting their inchoate ramblings covers the reporting agencies in slime...
This wouldn't even be "news" if douches stopped covering it... It's about as relevant to reality as a Paris-Hilton-thinks-its-hot-O-Meter.
I started a new website to talk about this:
http://ihategreenpeace.com