Apple moves closer to eliminating toxics
Regular readers will know we follow Apple news closely because we want them to be an environmental leader in the electronics industry. Apple announced new products this week and took a step closer to meet their goal of removing toxic BFRs and PVC completely. New iMacs and Mac minis are BFR free and PVC free internally.
That seems to just leave Apple to get rid of the PVC in external power cords, a move which industry insiders tell us is coming soon. Infinite loop has a good analysis of the latest moves from Apple here:
"We have spent a tremendous amount of time and engineering effort and money in coming up with these kinds of solutions ahead of the rest of the industry," (David Moody, Apple VP of marketing).
On toxic chemicals elimination they are leading the industry, now it's time for Dell, HP, Lenovo and co to match Apple's effort and money they have put it to this since May 2007.
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very glad to hear this. Apple said that they would have removed PVC completely from their computers by the end 2008, but no updated schedule for this?
thanks for keeping us updated
Posted by: cassius | March 7, 2009 6:48 PM