Publication - March 17, 2008
Nokia rises from 9th position to 3rd, despite the fact that it retains a penalty point for corporate misbehaviour on its take-back and recyclingpractice. Further testing of Nokia’s take-back programme by Greenpeace revealed that staff are still not informed about the take-back servicein Russia and India, although the service was much improved in the Philippines and Thailand. However, Nokia has increased its score for theinformation it gives to customers on its take-back service.Nokia scores well on the chemicals criteria; it has already eliminated polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic from new models of mobiles and is noweliminating brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from the remaining applications – in new flexible circuits. Nokia gets top marks for its supportfor Individual Producer Responsibility, whereby each company takes care of the electronic waste from its own-branded discarded products.