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| Greenpeace Forced Out of Apple Mac Expo Greenpeace's high profile 'Green my Apple' stall was shut-down at the start of the Mac Expo Organisers of the Mac Expo claimed they had received complaints from unnamed sources. The Greenpeace stall was bought for the three-day expo in an attempt to raise awareness about concerns over the use of toxic chemicals in Apple's products. Mac Expo at the Olympia Kingston between 26th-28th of October is the UK's leading exhibition and conference for the Mac community. The Greenpeace volunteers manning the stall were signing up Mac fans to challenge Apple to go green. Flyers explaining the Green my Apple campaign were handed out to members of the public along with organic green apples. Apple scored 11th place оn a 'Guide to Greener Electronics' recently released by Greenpeace, with a poor showing on almost all criteria. The company fails to embrace the precautionary principle, withholds its full list of regulated substances, provides no timelines for eliminating toxic polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and no commitment at all to phasing out all uses of brominated flame retardants (BFRs). The company also performs poorly on product take back and recycling, with the exception of reporting on the amounts of its electronic waste recycled. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Exhibition News :: home page |