Apple's no stranger to being
slammed by
Greenpeace, and while Steve certainly spoke of a "
Greener Apple," it seems that the iPhone wasn't included. According to tests arranged by the entity, it was found that the iPhone contained "toxic brominated compounds (indicating the presence of brominated flame retardants) and hazardous PVC,"
which are said to be disallowed across the pond due to RoHS requirements. More specifically, the independent testing found "brominated compounds in half the samples, including in the phone's antenna, in which they made up 10-percent of the total weight of the flexible circuit board." As expected, Greenpeace wasted no time pointing to
rival firms that have received pats on the back for their green efforts, and subsequently shook a finger at Apple while murmuring "tsk tsk" -- but we'll leave the actual politicking to you all in comments, cool?
Update: Greenpeace does not claim that Apple is in violation of RoHS.
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posted Oct 15th 2007 3:49PM
Those "hazardous compounds" are nothing that most phone/computer manufacturers aren't using.
But Greenpeace knows Apple gets them headlines, in a way Dell or Gateway or Samsung can't.
Making an electronic device entirely "green" is difficult - mostly for the consumer, when it self-destructs after a short time (look up "tin whiskers").
Of course, Nokia has never worried about longevity in their products, so they have no problem using tin solder or paper circuits or corn starch plastic if it's cheap enough. Yay Nokia, kings of green. Let me call in my Greenpeace donation right now! Oops, my N95 just short-circuited. Oh well.
Yeah, they do short circuit frequently, don't they?
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You don't know what you're talking about.
Yes - and the fact most people who follow GreenPeace/PETA, etc use Apple products as well.
Jonny, that makes two of us, I guess.
so you are saying... wait... let me see....
eat an iPhone = bad?
/removes iPhone from mouth.
I get so tired of hearing what these "environmentalists" have to say...
Why waste time calling them "environmentalists" when we can just skip to "tree-huggers" and "dirty hippies".
I love this kind of stuff. It makes people realize that the iPhone is not the one and only. It is only the beginning of a large line of iPhones that will only be slowly upgraded and price slowly dropped kind of like the iPod line.
JAmerican
Note to self: Never blend - then eat/drink - an iPhone.
Greenpeace. Get a life!! Bunch of self-righteous know it alls.
It's groups like you and PETA that are causing us to lose our freedoms one by one.
What about those diesel powered ships you use Greenpeace when you campaign against global warming??
You are hypocrites!
Yeah, Greenpeace is a joke. The thing is that, portraying an extremist point of view issues, as Greenpeace, PETA, ALF, and the ELF are known to do, cause people to discount their views. Greenpeace and PETA are poor ambassadors of their views to Joe Everyman, which hurts their causes more than it helps. If they were to switch from an activist role to, say, more of an educational role, they'd be more successful in bringing people to their ideology. And that joke of a periodical that PETA puts out doesn't count.