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We first released our 'Guide to Greener Electronics' in August 2006. The guide ranks the 14 top manufacturers of personal computers and mobile phones according to their policies on toxic chemicals and recycling.
In this fifth issue of the Guide, Nokia maintains top spot with Sony Ericsson close behind. Dell and Lenovo tie for third place. Sony is the biggest mover and together with LGE has moved out of the red zone. Apple, Panasonic, Acer, Toshiba and Samsung move down the ranking for failing to make any additional improvements. HP is the only constant faller in the guide and is now in 13th position.
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Nokia -Maintains top position for eliminating the
worst chemicals from manyproducts. Still needs to report recycling
rate percentage.
More |
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Sony Ericsson - Moving
upfor greener products on the market and for pledging to have
productsfree of the worst chemicals by 2008. Needs better takeback
reportingprogram.
More |
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Dell- Loses points for not
having models free of the worstchemicals. Strong support for global
takeback.
More |
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Lenovo - Loses points for not having a clearglobal take back program. Yet to put products free of the worstchemicals on the market. More |
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LGE - Previous penalty point on the
takebackpolicies lifted. Has now products free of the worst
chemicals.Improvement needed on its global take back.
More |
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Sony - The biggest mover
with improved take backprogram and more products free of the worst
chemicals. Previous penaltypoint on take-back policy lifted, but
loses points for not reportingrecycling rate percentage.
More |
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Fujitsu-Siemens - Moves upfor increasing its
recycling program. Some models free of worstchemicals, but loses
point for no clear timelines for eliminating theworst chemicals.
More |
| 6.7 |
Samsung - No
improvements but good chemicalspolicy. No products that are free
from the worst chemicals. Takebackprogram not yet global and needs
improvement.
More |
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Motorola - Some improvements on takeback plansglobally and for having products free of the worst chemicals. It losespoints for no clear timelines for eliminating these chemicals in allproducts. More |
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Toshiba - Made steps forproviding some models without the worst chemicals and working takebackprogram globally but loses points for not reporting on their recyclingplans. More |
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Acer - Dropping back
with noimprovements. Loses points for not providing models free of
the worstchemicals. Needs to improve on takeback program.
More |
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Apple - Dropping back with no improvements.Concrete timelines to eliminate the worst chemicals but loses pointsfor not have models without the worst chemicals and weak take backprogram. More |
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Hewlett Packard - In free fall, still failing toprovide clear timelines for eliminating the worst chemicals. Losespoints for weak definition of take back policies. More |
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Panasonic -Falling to the bottom of the rankingwithout any improvements. Some products free of the worst chemicals.Loses point for poor takeback program. More |
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Ranking criteriaexplained
The ranking criteria reflect the demands of the Toxic Techcampaign to the electronics companies. Our two demands are thatcompanies should:
- clean up theirproducts by eliminating hazardous substances;
- takeback and recycle their productsresponsibly once they becomeobsolete.
The two issuesare connected. The use of harmful chemicals in
electronics preventstheir safe recycling when the products are
discarded. Companies scoredmarks out of 30 this has then been
calculated to a mark out of 10 forsimplicity.
Follow the more link beside each companyfor the full details of
their score. The
fullcriteria for scoring the companies is available. Download
the
fullpdf of the scorecard.
Each score is basedsolely on public information on the companies
website. Companies foundnot to be following their published
policies will be deducted penaltypoint in future versions of the
guide.
The guide isupdated every 3 months. The
currentversion was published on the 19 September2007.
Disclaimer:
Our 'Guide to Greener Electronics'aims to clean up the
electronics sector and get manufacturers to takeresponsibility for
the full life cycle of their products, including theelectronic
waste that their products generate. The guide does not
rankcompanies on labour standards, energy use or any other issues,
butrecognises that these are important in the production and use
ofelectronics products.