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Arcturus on 27 November 2007

Sorry if this was posted already. I used the search function but it wouldn't return anything.

 

Nintendo is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to policies on toxic chemicals and recycling, says a new Greenpeace report.

The Guide to Greener Electronics ranked manufacturers on a scale of 1 to 10 based on how they "clean up their products by eliminating hazardous substances" and  "takeback and recycle their products responsibly once they become obsolete."

Sony earned one of the highest scores given with a 7.3, while Microsoft and Nintendo were basement dwellers with a 2.7 and 0, respectively. No company on the list received higher than a 7.7.

Guide to Greener Electronics [Greenpeace, via Kotaku]

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Faxanadu on 27 November 2007

it has already been posted, sorry not accepted. Reason for 0: no information given to treehuggers.



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shams on 27 November 2007

Its pretty funny - go Nintendo!!



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Chadius on 27 November 2007

Posted already.

Nintendo gave no data, so Greenpeace gave them a 0, instead of "No Data Available."

That's Lying with Statistics. Makes Chadius...ANGRY



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albionus on 27 November 2007

Hmmm, well now I'm conflicted. Nintendo refused to play nice with tree huggers so that's a plus in my book but then again an actual factual 0 would have been a double plus. Oh well, I can't like Nintendo anymore than I already do so problem solved.



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Arcturus on 27 November 2007
Chadius said:
Posted already.

Nintendo gave no data, so Greenpeace gave them a 0, instead of "No Data Available."

That's Lying with Statistics. Makes Chadius...ANGRY

I guess Greenpeace is just assuming total guilt based on Nintendo not providing data...which is typical of them. Does anyone important actually take Greenpeace seriously when they release these "reports"?



famousringo on 27 November 2007
Soriku said:
Lol, go Nintendo! But at least the Wii takes up less energy.

 Which wasn't even a factor in the study.

 Greenpeace is one of those organizations I'd like to sympathize with, but they're just muddying the waters with different PR. It's hard to get behind that.



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Entroper on 27 November 2007

Greenpeace attempts to make companies look bad, ends up looking stupid themselves in the process. What else is new?



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stof on 27 November 2007

I'm alright with Greenpeace's reasoning on this. Why can't Nintendo be transparent about their environmental practices? In fact, why aren't they and every other company working hard to be able to out do eachother on sustainability?



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TWRoO on 27 November 2007

I did wonder why they didn't release any info, from what i read the first thread this was in i guess it might be that they cannot properly reveal which companies are actually manufacturing their various things, or maybe cannot say what practices those companies go through themselves...

I dunno.