Greenpeace warning about iPhone

According to a statement on Greenpeace's Web site,"An independent scientific laboratory tested 18 internal and external components of the iPhone and confirmed the presence of brominated compounds in half the samples, including in the phone's antenna, in which they made up 10% of the total weight of the flexible circuit board.A mixture of toxic phthalates was found to make up 1.5% of the plastic (PVC) coating of the headphone cables.” As per Greenpeace Research Laboratories, two of the phthalate plasticisers are classed in Europe as “toxic to reproduction, Category 2” because they can interfere with sexual reproduction in mammals.They have called on Apple to eliminate the use of these chemicals in its products. And also the Greenpeace testers found that phone’s battery was glued and soldered in place. “This hinders battery replacement and makes separation for recycling, or appropriate disposal, more difficult, and therefore adds to the burden of electronic waste.”
Now is, Apple coming under the Chinese influence or it is their own stupidity that they did not care about it. But it is definitely, going to hurt them unless they correct is soon.

Comments

Unknown said…
Apple should have been more aware of these issues since many of their patrons consider themselves green.

But the reality is they are just like IBM, just a different logo. Share-price comes before the environmental damage their products create.

And, I am surprised they managed to turn the ship around. Before the Ipod, they were on the verge of failure.

Their marketing team must have been great since they convinced the general public that the ipod was better than any of the dozens of similar products already on the market.
October 17, 2007 at 10:24 AM
Unknown said…
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October 22, 2007 at 3:29 AM
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