14 DAY TRIAL // Recent reports are revealing that Apple is steadily securing a better position within the Greenpeace Guide with the passing of each year. Jumping from 2.5/10 to 6.7/10 in less than two years is quite a feat, but the Cupertino-based corporation still has to shake off the remaining PVC and BFRs in its line of Macs.
As most Apple fans should know, the company's latest introduced notebook, the MacBook Air, is completely mercury and arsenic-free. It is not entirely free of PVC and BFRs however, which is why Apple has a bit of a bumpy road ahead of itself, if it's going to "fall in the green" eventually.
In the first three iterations of the Greenpeace Guide, as revealed by Jason D. O'Grady of The Apple Core, "from March 2006 to August 2007, Apple was stuck at a dismal 2.5/10. Then in June 2007, Apple jumped to 5.5 and to 6.0 in December 2oo7. In the seventh version of the guide, published this month, Apple jumped to 6.7, tied with Sony Ericsson, LGE, FSC and HP."
Apple's continuos ascending in the Greenpeace Guide is, of course, due in part to its super-thin notebook, the elusive MacBook Air, as well as its iPhone and iPod touch. Better-performing companies such as Nokia, Sony, Lenovo and Dell are tied at 7.3. Samsung and Toshiba are currently on the number one spot tied at 7.7/10.
"Apple continues to progress up the ranking to 9th position from 11th, having improved its score for the new models of MacBook and MacBook Pro with the majority of internal cables free of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and the majority of circuit board laminates free of brominated flame retardants (BFRs). New iMacs are also sold with bromine-free casings and printed circuit board laminates as well as PVC-free internal cables," the Greenpeace report states. "Many iPods now have bromine-free casings and printed circuit board laminates."
Greenpeace notes that Apple still has to shake off some of that PVC and BFRs but has faith in its commitment to do so within the course of this year: "[Apple] has committed to eliminate all uses of PVC and BFRs in its products by the end of 2008," the PDF reveals.
The same report reveals that Nintendo still doesn't give a damn.