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While Apple touts its new products as being even greener than their predecessors, the latest Greenpeace survey says otherwise. Although it got high marks for reducing toxic chemicals, the Mac maker scored low in the organization’s Guide to Greener electronics for not supporting global recycling initiatives or u... |
2 July 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Apple has announced an initiative to recycle outdated or unwanted Mac computers occupying valuable space in schools, free of charge. The program, available until July 31, 2009, also extends to PCs and qualifying peripherals from any manufacturer, according to Apple. “This spring, Apple will recycle your school&... |
8 May 2009
09:44 GMT |
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NextWorth, the company that, last year, announced a trade-in service for first-generation iPhone owners looking to upgrade to the new 3G model, has now confirmed expanding its recycling services beyond Apple's iPods and iPhones. The player in consumer electronic upgrades and trade-ins informed of new categories ... |
14 April 2009
14:01 GMT |
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When introducing the new line of MacBook computers, Apple was very keen to stress just how much it achieved with the new devices, both from a functional point of view, and from an environmental perspective.Hence, the company has recently set up a page that talks about the new MacBook line, dubbed by Apple “the ... |
25 November 2008
06:55 GMT |
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With Steve Jobs posting an open message on the company's web site regarding Apple's efforts to stay green, Greenpeace acknowledged that the internal cables in new MacBooks now contain no PVC. Still, the organization wants Apple to apply this across the whole notebook, not just the cables. Apple, for its par... |
17 October 2008
06:07 GMT |
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Preoccupied with climate change and the impact people have on the environment, Australia's largest mobile carrier, Telstra, has recently launched a campaign and a website called “Smarter, greener, together.” This comes on the heels of a study showing that the telecommunications industry is capable of... |
2 October 2008
10:04 GMT |
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Nokia, the giant handset manufacturer, has released a survey showing that only about 3% of the mobile users around the globe are recycling their old cell phones. The question behind the survey was "What happens to most mobile devices when people no longer use them?" and, as it turns out, unfortunately, about 44% of t... |
8 July 2008
02:58 GMT |
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In a piece of news that fits well with today's holiday (July 4, the Independence Day), AT&T has announced that, together with CPFS (Cell Phones for Soldiers), it had raised more than $2 million that will be used to offer free phone cards for the US troops and their families. The largest US mobile carrier and t... |
4 July 2008
13:29 GMT |
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Nokia, the largest handset manufacturer in the world, unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, a new concept phone made entirely out of recycled materials. The Finnish company seems to be more sensitive towards environmental problems than any other cell phone producer, as it was the first manufactur... |
14 February 2008
03:33 GMT |
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Incredible as it may seem, the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen will soon be unavailable for Earth. Helium gas represents 8 percent of the total mass observed in the universe, but the reserves of the largest helium mining facility located in Texas are predicted to deplete in about eight ye... |
7 January 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Waste management began as a problem for the computer industry a few years ago and since then, big names representing powerful and well established companies decided to start their own electronic waste gathering programs in order to diminish the industry's environmental footprint.As this trend continues and grows... |
21 August 2007
09:18 GMT |
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Dell announced that it recovered nearly 40000 tons of damaged, defective or broken computer hardware parts from its customers last year, which would mean a 93% increase over 2006, with a much more ambitious goal of 125000 tons by 2009. According to the company, the amount of hardware parts collected and recycled equa... |
20 July 2007
07:05 GMT |
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HP announced today that it has met its goal of recycling one billion pound of used electronic components and that its net target is set for two billion by 2010. In 2004, the company set its initial goal after it reached the half a billion mark and in the next three years, it went on recycling another half of billion ... |
13 July 2007
09:31 GMT |
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There's little surprise that the number of companies struggling to make mobile phone recycling a common thing to do is quite large. Although environmental-concerned companies sometimes may seem to overdo with their concerns, the fact is that mobile phones thrown away randomly prove to be a considerable source of... |
22 June 2007
05:55 GMT |
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When thinking of traditional musical instruments I guess that "wood" is one of the first things we relate and associate in our minds. Now, you don't need me to tell you that wood is slowly (and unfortunately - fastly in some places) growing scarce because of irrational exploitation. Several musical instruments m... |
2 April 2007
08:45 GMT |
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