Guide to Greener Electronics - Lenovo, September 2009

Lenovo drops from 16th to 17th position with its score remaining on 2.5 points, encumbered by a penalty point imposed for backtracking on its commitment to eliminate PVC and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) in all its products by the end of 2009. Lenovo’s new timeline for meeting this commitment of end of 2010 is to be dropped and there is no new timeline. No timeline means no commitment.On the toxic chemical criteria, although Lenovo has put on the market a monitor largely free of brominated flame retardants and PVC vinyl plastic, this one model (in two sizes) is insufficient to score a point. It is rewarded for committing to the phase out of beryllium (including alloys and compounds) and antimony and its compounds by 2012, but phthalates are still only reportable substances.

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