Page - May 26, 2010
We first released our 'Guide to Greener Electronics' in August 2006. The guide ranks the 18 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TV's and games consoles according to their policies on toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change.
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| 7.5 |
Nokia - Nokia stays in 1st place with a slightly increased score of 7.5, up from 7.3. |
| 6.9 |
Sony Ericsson - It's the best performer on the toxic chemicals criteria of all the ranked brands. |
| 5.1 |
Philips - Scores well on toxic chemical issues; it has committed to eliminating PVC vinyl plastic. |
| 5.1 |
Motorola - Scores relatively well on the chemicals criteria and has a goal to eliminate PVC vinyl plastic and BFRs. |
| 4.9 |
Apple - Does best on the toxic chemicals criteria, where it scores most of its points. All Apple products are now free of PVC vinyl plastic and BFRs. |
| 4.9 |
Panasonic - Its climb up the ranking is due to the drop in scores of other companies, rather than in improvements in its own performance. |
| 4.9 |
Sony - Sony loses points for failing to expand its take-back program to non-OECD countries. |
| 4.9 |
H.P - HP could improve its score on chemicals by committing to eliminate additional harmful substance |
| 4.5 |
Sharp - Gains points on the energy efficiency of its products but loses them on two other criteria. |
| 4.3 |
Dell - Continues to be hampered by the penalty point imposed for backtracking on its commitment to eliminate PVC vinyl plastic and BFRs. |
| 4.1 |
Acer - Loses points as its new plan to phase out PVC vinyl plastic and BFRs is for personal and mobile computing products by 2011 rather than for all products. |
| 3.7 |
LG Electronics - It loses most of its points on the energy efficiency of its products. |
| 3.7 |
Samsung - Is in free fall, dropping from joint 7th to 13th place, as a result of TWO penalty points. |
| 3.5 |
Toshiba - Drops dramatically from 3rd place to 14th, due to the penalty point imposed for backtracking on its commitment to bring to market new models of all its consumer electronics products free of PVC vinyl plastic and BFRs by April 1, 2010. |
| 3.5 |
Fujitsu - Fujitsu gains a point for adopting the precautionary principle to inform its chemical policy. |
| 3.3 |
Microsoft - It gains most of its points on energy, for supporting mandatory cuts in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions |
| 1.9 |
Lenovo - It remains encumbered by a penalty point imposed for backtracking on its commitment to eliminate PVC vinyl plastic and BFRs in all its products by the end of 2009. |
| 1.8 |
Nintendo - It continues to score zero on all e-waste criteria. |
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 in May, 2010.
Previous Versions of the Company Report Card:
May, 2010, Version 15
December 2009, Version 14
September 2009, Version 13
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.