How the companies line up: 11th Edition

 

	7.45	Nokia - Scores top marks for leading competitors on toxic phase out.
	7.1	Samsung – Holds second position for commitment to reduce absolute emissions.
	6.5	Sony Ericsson - Up two places with better product energy efficiency reporting
	5.7	LG Electronics - Up two places but needs to eliminate hazardous chemicals from all products.
	5.5	Toshiba - Moves up two places with an extra point for promising to cut GHGs.
	5.5	Motorola - Scores higher and climbs two places because of use of renewable energy.
	5.3	Philips - Falls from 4th to 7th position and needs to put its commitment to responsible recycling policies into practice.
	5.3	Motorola - Down one place, needs to improve on waste and energy.
	5.3	Sharp - Rises from 9th to joint 7th place with its energy efficient products.
	4.9	Acer - Put 16 new models of a monitor that are almost free of hazardous chemicals and climbed two places from 11 to 9 but still need to sort out the power cord.
	4.9	Panasonic - Advance from 12th to 10th place for energy efficiency and pvc free product range but still bad on e waste.
	4.7	Apple - Drop one position to 11th with no change in scores but get kudos for their green macbook.
	4.5	Sony - Plunges from 5th to 12th place for inadequate commitments on eliminating hazardous chemicals, e waste policy and cutting GHGs .
	3.9	Dell - Stays at 13th place because of backtracking on toxics phase out.
	3.5	Dell - Is at 14th position and has no products on the market free of toxic substances.
	2.5	Microsoft - Loses a point for a poor recycling policy but stays in 15th position.
	2.5	Lenovo- Down two places with no set timeline for toxics phase out on all products.
	2.4	Fujitsu- Debuts second from last with no products that are free of hazardous chemicals

 

 

Ranking criteria explained

The ranking criteria reflect the demands of the Toxic Tech campaign to the electronics companies. Our three demands are that companies should:

• clean up their products by eliminating hazardous substances;

• takeback and recycle their products responsibly once they become obsolete.
• Reduce the climate impacts of their operations and products.

The use of harmful chemicals in electronics prevents their safe recycling when the products are discarded. Companies scored marks out of 51 this has then been calculated to a mark out of 10 for simplicity.

Each score is based solely on public information on the companies website. Companies found not to be following their published policies will be deducted penalty point in future versions of the guide.

The guide is updated every 3 months. The current version was published on July 1, 2009.

 

Previous Versions of the Company Report Card:

July 2009, Version 12

March 2009, Version 11

January 2009, Version 10

September 2008, Version 9

June 2008, Version 8

March 2008, Version 7

November 2007, Version 6

September 2007, Version 5

July 2007, Version 4

May 2007, Version 3

August 2006, Version 1

 

Disclaimer: Our "Guide to Greener Electronics" aims to clean up the electronics sector and get manufacturers to take responsibility for the full life cycle of their products, including the electronic waste that their products generate. The guide does not rank companies on labour standards, mining, or any other issues, but recognises that these are important in the production and use of electronics products