Greenpeace Slams Apple For Environmental Record

nandemoari writes "According to a recent advertisement airing on American TV, Apple's new Macbooks (well-received by most technology critics) are 'the world's greenest family of notebooks.' It seems an indication that the Cupertino-based company is increasingly aware of a consumer base that demands green electronics. However, Greenpeace is less than enthused with Apple's overall green performance. In their report (PDF), the environmentalists argue that Apple 'needs to commit to phasing out additional substances with timelines, improve its policy on chemicals and its reporting on chemicals management.'" Ars Technica points out that Greenpeace's research isn't quite up-to-snuff, and it's also worth noting that Greenpeace admitted to targeting Apple for the publicity in the past.

Comments

Re:Mod up

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

Me too.

Re:Trickle down is beneficial

[alexibu]

I think that you'd be surprised to find that you wouldn't actually know how to be green with out groups like Greenpeace bringing things to you and your societies attention just like they have with this issue.
Would anyone know the Japanese were harvesting whales if noone was watching / would you know about climate change ? I'm sure the oil / coal companies would have managed to tell us eventually.
Greenpeace use the media to bring attention to things that there is no commercial interest in publicizing, but which it is in all our interests to know about. That is extremely valuable in a world where most of our information about our ever closely interconnected world comes from international media which is mostly dominated by commercial interests.

interesting...

[Jerry Beasters]

Maybe Apple should slam Greenpeace for their terrorism record.