Greenpeace Ranks Nokia at Top of Electronics Guide
Greenpeace recently released the ninth edition of its annual Guide to Greener Electronics, ranking Nokia first above other well-known manufacturers such as Samsung and Nintendo.
Nokia scored seven out of ten possible points, scoring highly because of its improved take-back practices in India, toxic chemical issues, utilizing models free of PVC and aiming to have all new models free of brominated flame retardants and antimony trioxide by the end of 2009.
Samsung ranked second, due to its high scores in the energy-efficiency of its products. It also scores well on its use of recycled plastic, at 16.1 percent, though only 0.2 percent is post-consumer plastic, with a goal to increase to 25 percent by 2008.
At the bottom of the list, Microsoft ranked 17 and scored 2.2 points for its poor ranking in voluntary take-back and reycling programs, among other items. Nintendo scored only 0.8 points, ranking last mainly due to scoring zero points on e-waste criteria and also ranking poorly on recycling, voluntary take-back programs the use of recycled plastics in its products.
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