Jan Willem Dol of Greenpeace had a talk at the DEAF 07, in Rotterdam, to present the greenmyapple project. He said that the electronic life span was 6 years in 1997, just 2 years in 2005, and now we’re transfering to the poor world at least 50 tons a year of technological trash. And pollution is not just about trash but also in the production process.
They’re Greenpeace, and they want a fresh green Apple.
Right now, poison Apples full of chemicals (like toxic flame retardants, and polyvinyl chloride) are being sold worldwide. When they’re tossed, they usually end up at the fingertips of children in China, India and other developing-world countries. They dismantle them for parts, and are exposed to a dangerous toxic cocktail that threatens their health and the environment.
Recycling – Apple finally came around to a limited recycling program in the US, but they can do better. We want them to offer a comprehensive take-back and recycling program worldwide. Not just in the US or where Apple is legally compelled to.
It’s time for Apple to use clean ingredients in all of its products, and to provide a free take-back program to reuse and recycle its products wherever they are sold. That means:
* Remove the worst toxic chemicals from all their products and production lines.
* Offer and promote free “take-back” for all their products everywhere they are sold.
And besides all, Jan Willem Dol said even that Apple is even the worst companyone about this issue, because first of all Greenpeace asked company like Lenovo, Sony and Apple to do something about take-back and recycling program, and other company actually did something, just Jobs did’nt even replky to more than 30.000 emails sended to him from disappointed aplle users.
And the story goes on…
