27 November 2008

Nokia Scores Maximum Points For Its
Comprehensive Voluntary Take-back Programme

Greenpeace International has published its tent Guide to Greener Electronics, and called on all manufacturers to do more to respond to climate change.

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.

Nokia remains top and still superiorly leads Greenpeace’s list, actually hole mobile industry make big jumps up the ranking while the PC leaders such as Dell, HP, Apple and Acer drop down on the list!

It is also interesting to see Apple ranking so low as they are meant to be world leaders in design and marketing but it is obviously that they’ll hardly catch Nokia as the world leader in environmental innovation.

It is really nice to see that Nokia is making the effort towards green technology and we should applaud Nokia's effort to encourage the proper recycling of unwanted electronics and to to further reduce their environmental impact!

The ranking is important because the amount of toxic e-waste is growing everyday and it often ends up dumped in the developing world. Reducing the toxic chemicals in products reduces pollution from old products and makes recycling safer, easier and cheaper. Companies with good recycling schemes help ensure that their products don't end up in the e-waste yards of Asia.

"The scorecard will provide a dynamic tool to green the electronics sector by setting off a race to the top. By taking back their discarded products, companies will have incentives to eliminate harmful substances used in their products, since this is the only way they can ensure safe reuse and recycling of electronic waste," said Iza Kruszewska, Greenpeace International toxics campaigner.