It seemed like if I was going to talk about the 5 greenest electronics companies, I should also address the five least green.
Guide to Greener Electronics – The Bottom 5:
Dell – Reduced score on energy criteria and penalty point for delaying toxics phase out till 2011. Score: 3.9
Fujitsu – Improved score due to support for global carbon emission reductions and cutting its own emissions. Score: 3.5
Lenovo – Score unchanged, with penalty point for indefinite delay on toxics phase out. Score: 2.5
Microsoft – Reduced score, fails to support strong chemicals legislation. Score: 2.4
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Nintendo – Nintendo remains in last place with the same score. Score: 1.4
While perhaps not the only factor in choosing which companies to support, it is one that has far reaching implications. I for one am glad to have this source of information. Especially when, or if all other factors may be equal. How do you decide among a bunch of comparable products, be they TVs, computers, or any other electronic device, when the specs and prices are about the same? A win all around to go for the greener product. And even if on occasion a compromise in features or price may be necessary, perhaps a small price figuratively and literally to be paid for going non or less toxic.
Looking again at Greenpeace’s latest (December 2009) edition of Guide to Greener Electronics we see that, “Samsung, Dell, Lenovo and LG Electronics (LGE) pick up penalty points in the Guide for failing to follow through on a promised phase-out of toxics in their products…Samsung drops dramatically from second place to a tied seventh place for failing to eliminate BFRs in all its products by January 2010. With only its latest models of mobile phones free of toxic substances, it has set January 2011 as the deadline for eliminating them from new models of its notebooks and still has no definitive timeline for removing them from its TVs and household appliances.”
With Nintendo is in last place, Microsoft is just one better, in 17th spot. Why so low for Microsoft? The company “fails to support strong chemicals legislation.” Lovely…doesn’t make be feel so good to be using Windows just now. I’ll be thinking twice next time I choose to show support of a company by way of buying their products.
It’s next to impossible to be completely informed about everything we may want or need, true of probably everything in life, but at least we can keep on accumulating more information so we can make the best possible decisions at the time. Again, like everything in life.
If you’re wanting to do something right away to send a message to manufacturers, there’s a Greenpeace petition to Samsung to follow the lead of Apple, Sony Ericsson, and HP in eliminating harmful chemicals like PVC and BFRs (brominated flame retardants) from their products, “before they end up contaminating soil and water in an e-waste dump in Asia or Africa.” Sign Greenpeace’s Samsung petition on Twitter
