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HP and Apple's toxic laptops exposed

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Your guide to green electronics

The biggest names in electronics have just sat their first global exam on their green credentials. Ranked on their use of toxic chemicals and electronic waste (e-waste) policies only Dell and Nokia scraped a barely respectable score while Apple, Motorola and Lenovo flunked the test to finish bottom of the class.

Dell computer waste (e-waste) in a Chinese scrap yard. Enlarge Image

Dell promises greener computers but users want more

Dell has become the latest company to promise to remove the worst toxic chemicals from it products, closely following the move of its rival HP. Both companies have been pressured by us to make their products greener and help tackle the growing mountain of toxic e-waste.

Motorola: breaking promises to remove toxic chemicals from its phones. Enlarge Image

Motorola hangs up on toxic clean up promise

US mobile phone company Motorola has backtracked on a promise to remove toxic chemicals from its products. While competitors like Sony Ericsson and Nokia are living up to their commitments to remove toxic chemicals, Motorola is not answering the call to clean up.

Activists deliver electronic waste back to the offices of Hewlett Packard to demand the removal of toxic substances from HP products. Enlarge Image

HP rises to the toxic challenge

Electronics giant Hewlett Packard has risen to the challenge we set them and committed to a phase out plan for a range of hazardous chemicals in its products. Now we are at the consumer electronics industry's biggest annual event to ask "who's next?"

Greenpeace activists demonstrate against e-waste outside the Hewlett Packard (HP) Beijing headquarters. Greenpeace is calling on all electronic companies to produce cleaner, longer lasting products. Greenpeace further more demands that they take full responsibility for their products over the whole life cycle and especially when the products become waste. Enlarge Image

Hewlett Packard in global toxic trouble

It has been a confrontational 24 hours for the PR people at computer giant Hewlett Packard (HP) with Greenpeace activists turning up at both their headquarters in the US and China.

A Chinese child sits amongst a pile of wires and e-waste. Children can often be found dismantling e-waste containing many hazardous chemicals known to be potentially very damaging to children's health. Enlarge Image

Pulling the plug on dirty electronics

What happens to your mobile or computer when you throw it away? Did you know it could end up dumped in Asia and scrapped by hand in appalling conditions? This shouldn't be happening, so we are pressuring one of the biggest bad guys, Hewlett-Packard, to come clean -- by delivering a truckload of its own electronic waste to its doorstep.

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