kiwipicker wrote:as former GP worker, I can say this about the Apple campaign:
the rating system was based more on documentation than Apple's company action. With that being said, Apple has been known to charge a fee if you were to take products to them to be recycled, and as a symbolic Market leader, GP essentially uses their name as a tool for attention to the industry problems. Obviously, Macintoshes are produced in much smaller numbers than pc countreparts internationally, hence the stats are a bit of an illusion.
GP is not evil, though, and as an orginaztion it has done some cool things to challenge the big boys with all the money..
from article wrote:However, Greenpeace charges that both manufacturers are also "part of a coalition that has been opposing producer responsibility and lobbying for U.S. consumers to pay an Advanced Recycling Fee (ARF)."
Greenpeace has had a bone to pick with Apple for some time. Last year Greenpeace demonstrators were kicked out of MacExpo. Two months later, Greenpeace released a scathing report detailing Apple as the worst environmentally friendly PC manufacturer in the world.
so it seems they are lobbying for this recycling tax to be put on us as well.
lame,
but still, apple rocks, the damage has been done, the earth was trashed on our watch, might as well enjoy our creations until we one day can't anymore.
that day might be soon, or later, but it will one day come. all flows, nothing lasts.
so when does that new apple phone come out anyway?
