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Greenpeace pulls plug on dirty electronics

Press release | May 23, 2005 at 18:22

Greenpeace called on dirty electronics companies to clean up their act today, starting with toxic tech giant, Hewlett-Packard. At 08.00 this morning, 15 Greenpeace activists delivered a truckload of electronic waste to the company's European...

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Pulling the plug on dirty..

Pulling the plug on dirty electronics

Feature story | May 24, 2005 at 5:30

GENEVA, Switzerland — 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...

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Toxic Technology polluting..

Toxic Technology polluting scrap yards in China and India: Greenpeace

Press release | August 17, 2005 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace today released a report of their scientific analysis of waste-waters, ashes, soils and sediments from electronic waste (e-waste) recycling yards in India and China. The report conclusively proves that toxic chemicals...

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Map of Asia showing where e

Map of Asia showing where e

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Map of Asia showing where e-waste is imported and recycling sites in China and India.

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Map of Asia showing where e

Map of Asia showing where e

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Map of Asia showing where e-waste is imported and recycling sites in China and India.

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Map of Asia showing where e

Map of Asia showing where e

Image | August 17, 2005 at 12:56

Map of Asia showing where e-waste is imported and recycling sites in China and India.

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Young workers at an e

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Young workers at an e-waste recycling yard in Delhi.

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Young workers at an e

Young workers at an e

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Young workers at an e-waste recycling yard in Delhi.

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Young workers at an e

Young workers at an e

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Young workers at an e-waste recycling yard in Delhi.

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Reality Bytes – Hi-tech..

Reality Bytes – Hi-tech products pollute scrap yards in Asia

Feature story | August 18, 2005 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — Got your hands on a brand new cellphone, computer, wide-screen TV? If yes, do you know where the old one went? In all probability, to one of many ‘recycling yards’; usually small-scale operations carried out in cramped brick...

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LG takes up the toxic tech..

LG takes up the toxic tech challenge

Feature story | August 23, 2005 at 15:11

"Life's Good" might be the LG motto but life just got a whole lot better for the planet after LG electronics announced that they are committing to eliminating toxic chemicals from their entire consumer electronics range.

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E-waste at the..

E-waste at the manufacturers gates!

Image | September 5, 2005 at 5:30

E-waste at the manufacturers gates!

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E-waste at the..

E-waste at the manufacturers gates!

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E-waste at the manufacturers gates!

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E-waste at the..

E-waste at the manufacturers gates!

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E-waste at the manufacturers gates!

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Wipro, Apply Thought!

Wipro, Apply Thought!

Feature story | September 5, 2005 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — A relatively new but deadly waste stream is exploding in our midst -Electronic scrap or E-waste. Bangalore, the IT centre of India, alone generates over 8000 tonnes of e-waste loaded with toxic chemicals and heavy metals that...

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Greenpeace calls on Wipro..

Greenpeace calls on Wipro to "Apply Thought" and "Promote Clean Production"

Press release | September 5, 2005 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — Greenpeace activists today delivered nearly 500 kilos of assorted electronic waste to the corporate headquarters of Wipro in Bangalore, to highlight the growing menace of dangerous chemicals being released to the environment...

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Greenpeace action prompts..

Greenpeace action prompts WIPRO to start 'Applying Thought'

Press release | November 19, 2005 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — Nearly ten weeks after Greenpeace activists first exhorted WIPRO to 'Apply Thought', WIPRO has responded to the challenge and taken initial steps towards reducing the burden of their electronic waste on the planet. At a meeting...

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Applied Thought! Wipro..

Applied Thought! Wipro ready to meet Greenpeace challenge?

Feature story | November 23, 2005 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — When large corporations are challenged to change their business practices, they usually respond grudgingly, with tentative, half-baked measures – especially if the change benefits the planet, not necessarily their bottom lines.

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WTO: The real face of free..

WTO: The real face of free trade

Feature story | December 12, 2005 at 9:30

HONG KONG, China — A child sits in a mountain of electronic waste, covered in toxic chemicals, pulling apart components to retrieve tiny bits of metal; this is the face of free trade your government does not want you to see. As trade ministers...

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Hi-tech -- Highly Toxic:..

Hi-tech -- Highly Toxic: Greenpeace tells electronics industry leaders to clean up.

Press release | March 9, 2006 at 5:30

BANGALORE/HANNOVER, Germany — As electronic industry leaders gather in Hanover, Germany today, at the world’s largest electronics fair, CeBit, Greenpeace activists erected a Giant robot, at the main entrance, made from electronic waste to remind...

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Dell responds to Greenpeace..

Dell responds to Greenpeace challenge; commits to 'greener' PCs

Press release | June 27, 2006 at 5:30

BANGALORE/AMSTERDAM, India — As a direct result of a sustained international 'Tox-Tech' campaign by Greenpeace, computer giant Dell has announced that it will remove key toxic chemicals from its PCs laptops and other products. The commitment from...

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High Time for Hi-Tech to..

High Time for Hi-Tech to Clean Up

Press release | July 11, 2006 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — Greenpeace today issued a public challenge to IT giant Wipro and its Chairperson Mr. Azim Premji, demanding that they become the first Indian electronics company to tackle the growing e-waste crisis (1). Greenpeace called on...

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High time for Hi-Tech to..

High time for Hi-Tech to clean up.

Feature story | July 11, 2006 at 5:30

It’s a strange anomaly. A company that claims to be ‘future-active’, an innovator and a market leader, seems to have contracted temporary amnesia when it comes to doing their bit for the environment. How else would you explain the fact that Wipro...

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Wipro applies thought.

Wipro applies thought. Earth heaves a sigh of relief.

Feature story | July 18, 2006 at 5:30

BANGALORE , India — After nine months of intensive campaigning by Greenpeace activists, two high-profile demonstrations at Wipro’s doorstep, hundreds of calls by our volunteers and supporters to their board number, thousands of forwarded eCards...

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Your guide to green..

Your guide to green electronics

Feature story | August 25, 2006 at 5:30

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,...

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Toxic substances in..

Toxic substances in laptops: Greenpeace study exposes HP's lie

Press release | September 18, 2006 at 5:30

A Greenpeace study has revealed the presence of toxic substances in well-known brand laptops, with HP and Apple having the highest contamination levels. (1) HP's statement on its website that brominated flame retardant (BFR) decaBDE had been...

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HP and Apple's toxic..

HP and Apple's toxic laptops exposed

Feature story | September 19, 2006 at 5:30

Some of the best-known laptops are contaminated with some of the worst toxic chemicals. Of the five top brands we tested Hewlett-Packard and Apple laptops showed the worst contamination levels.

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Green my Apple, Steve

Green my Apple, Steve

Feature story | September 30, 2006 at 15:02

Here at Greenpeace, we love our Macs. But we hate the fact that they're full of toxic chemicals. And we know someone who can do something about it: you.

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Greenpeace demands clean..

Greenpeace demands clean production policy to tackle E-waste

Press release | November 29, 2006 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — At the beginning of the COP-8 (1) meeting of the Basel Convention in Nairobi, Greenpeace today released a scathing critique of India's draft WEEE (Waste from Electronic and Electrical Equipment) legislation (2). Being developed...

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High-Tech industry..

High-Tech industry contaminating rivers and underground water

Press release | February 8, 2007 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace today released ‘Cutting Edge Contamination: A study of environmental pollution during the manufacture of electronic products’ (1). The report shows that some of the electronics industries’ biggest brands, and their...

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Greenpeace investigation..

Greenpeace investigation finds highly toxic substances in HCL laptop, demands...

Press release | March 20, 2007 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — Taking its campaign against hazardous e-products to the HCL doorstep in Noida, Greenpeace activists today slammed the company for producing computers using highly toxic substances that have the potential to impact both the...

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Lenovo leaps to the top in..

Lenovo leaps to the top in Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics.

Press release | April 3, 2007 at 5:30

Electronic products manufacturers are beginning to jostle for top space on the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics [1], an updated version of which was released today. Competitive pressure, ongoing dialogue with Greenpeace campaigners and...

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Chinese company tops..

Chinese company tops Greenpeace "Green Ranking" of electronics industry

Feature story | April 5, 2007 at 16:02

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The latest Greenpeace ranking of electronic manufacturers' recycling and toxic content policies has a couple of surprises: a previously low ranked Chinese company leaps to the number one spot, and Apple stays in last place.

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Tasty news from Apple!

Tasty news from Apple!

Feature story | May 3, 2007 at 15:58

We are cheering! Steve Jobs has decided to bring us closer to the greener apple that Mac users all over the world have been asking for.

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Greenpeace lauds Wipro’s..

Greenpeace lauds Wipro’s GreenWare initiative, asks rest of the E-industry to follow...

Press release | June 14, 2007 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — Greenpeace today welcomed the launch of RoHS-compliant desktops and laptops by Wipro Infotech. By doing this, Wipro, as a responsible corporate leader, has taken the first step forward in addressing the issue of e-waste, even...

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VICTORY! Wipro leads in..

VICTORY! Wipro leads in clean production. HCL still twiddling its thumbs.

Feature story | June 14, 2007 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — Two years ago, nobody could have believed that one day Wipro and Greenpeace would stand on the same stage, shake hands, and call it quits.

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Apple Greener, Nokia..

Apple Greener, Nokia regains lead in electronics ranking

Feature story | June 27, 2007 at 17:10

The fourth edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics is out now. Apple moves up as a result of Steve Job's "Greener Appple" pledge to phase out PVC and other chemicals from their product line. But Nokia is on top because they've...

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E-waste transported on a tricycle in Seelampur, Delhi.

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E-waste transported on a tricycle in Seelampur, Delhi.

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E-waste transported on a tricycle in Seelampur, Delhi.

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Indian brands not up to..

Indian brands not up to global standards: Greenpeace guide to Greener Electronics

Press release | August 13, 2007 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace today released the Indian Guide to Greener electronics (1), which ranks major Indian computer manufacturers on their green performance. Four editions of the global Guide have been published since the international...

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Make producers responsible..

Make producers responsible for India’s e-waste crisis: expert

Press release | August 20, 2007 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — This morning, Greenpeace activists knocked on the door of the Ministry of Information Technology, presenting it with a giant art installation of the globe in the clutches of hazardous e-waste – a reminder of the enormity of the...

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Greenpeace activists at the..

Greenpeace activists at the Ministry of Information

Image | August 20, 2007 at 18:24

Greenpeace activists at the Ministry of Information Technology with a giant art installation of the planet in the clutches of electronic waste. Greenpeace also presented the Ministry with a report on ‘Extended Producer Responsibility in a...

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Greenpeace activists at the..

Greenpeace activists at the Ministry of Information

Image | August 20, 2007 at 18:24

Greenpeace activists at the Ministry of Information Technology with a giant art installation of the planet in the clutches of electronic waste. Greenpeace also presented the Ministry with a report on ‘Extended Producer Responsibility in a...

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Greenpeace activists at the..

Greenpeace activists at the Ministry of Information

Image | August 20, 2007 at 18:24

Greenpeace activists at the Ministry of Information Technology with a giant art installation of the planet in the clutches of electronic waste. Greenpeace also presented the Ministry with a report on ‘Extended Producer Responsibility in a...

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E-waste: Industry, NGOs and..

E-waste: Industry, NGOs and researchers agree on need for action, will government pay...

Feature story | August 24, 2007 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — Though they might have deferred on the strategies and methods, all participants at Greenpeace’s seminar on Extended Producer Responsibility in an Indian Context were agreed that quick and effective measures were need to check...

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Enough greenwashing, its..

Enough greenwashing, its time to act, Greenpeace tells HCL

Press release | August 30, 2007 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace activists today staged a “shame-HCL” protest at the company’s headquarters in Noida, demanding that the company make clear and binding commitments to green its operations. Unfurling a banner that read “Hazardous...

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Greenpeace urges Nokia:..

Greenpeace urges Nokia: Tell HCL to go green

Press release | September 5, 2007 at 5:30

GURGAON/NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace today urged Nokia, the market leader in mobile phones in India, to review its business partnership with HCL if the later does not stop producing hazardous computers. Greenpeace activists taking along a huge...

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Greenpeace art installation depicting the

Image | September 13, 2007 at 5:30

Greenpeace art installation depicting the e-waste crisis at ELCOMP, the electrononics trade fair at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi

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Greenpeace art installation depicting the

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Greenpeace art installation depicting the e-waste crisis at ELCOMP, the electrononics trade fair at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi

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