Green your Apple
An interesting and timely new campaign from Greenpeace, called 'Green my Apple'. As a recent convert to the Apple cause, I'm a big supporter of this idea. I truly, deeply, madly love my new MacBook but was rather surprised by the amount of wasteful packaging that came with it. But the problem, it seems, is rather worse than needless packaging.
The Making Waves blog writes:
'We're asking Apple users worldwide to be the ones to make Apple do the right thing: get rid of the toxics in their product lines and introduce a world-wide take-back and recycle scheme. Simple, really.'
Alarmingly, a recent Greenpeace report found the following:
'Of all the laptops tested, Apple's sexy new MacBook was the most contaminated, with a concentration of 262 mg/kg of the toxic chemical TBBPA, a form of brominated flame retardant.'
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I've been using Apple computers & peripherals since 1984 and I'm really quite surprised by this.
Doesn't sit well with the image Apple would like to project.
Posted by: O'Reilly | September 27, 2006 3:23 PM
considering Jobbie McJobbs won't even let them eat meat in the Apple facility, it is indeed quite a shocker.
Posted by: ro_G | September 27, 2006 4:37 PM
So Sony's burst into flame at random, and the plastics that stop the Apple's from bursting into flames are also bad for us.
the world would be a much simpler place if the hippies would just stop reporting on these things
Posted by: podge | September 28, 2006 5:18 AM
gawd. and i thought my mac gear was all so innocent. it's actaully a wonder that this hasn't come out sooner.
Posted by: Amber | September 29, 2006 7:33 PM
lol, yea, apple does have a problem with this, there ipods are just as bad :P
they are on the bottem of the "good for the environment" list of computer parts lol
Posted by: rawee | December 18, 2007 2:01 PM