Nokia, Sony Ericsson top Greenpeace survey

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Nov 27 Nokia, Sony Ericsson top Greenpeace survey
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Global environmentalist group Greenpeace has announced that Nokia and Sony Ericsson have topped its Guide to Greener Electronics, which ranks the world's top 18 electronics products "according to their policies on toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change".

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The 18 companies were given grades ranging from 1 to 10, with Nokia getting 6.9 for its "comprehensive voluntary take-back programme".

The latest Nov. 2008 report is the 10th since Greenpeace started it in Aug. 2006.

Greenpeace said that Nokia, the world's largest phone manufacturer, "now scores maximum points for its comprehensive voluntary take-back programme, which spans 124 countries providing almost 5000 collection points for end-of-life mobile phones".

Sony Ericsson meanwhile got a grade of 5.9 for "its new environmental warranty, guaranteeing take-back and recycling for individual products regardless of location".

"[Sony Ericsson] is the first company to score almost top marks on the chemicals criteria, missing this target by having unreasonably high threshold limits for brominated flame retardants in products that are allegedly BFR-free. All SE products are already PVC-free. SE has already met the challenge of the new criterion on chemicals, by banning antimony, beryllium and phthalates from new models launched since January 2008," said the Greenpeace report.

Nintendo and Microsoft occupied the last three spots in the Greenpeace survey.

Greenpeace gave Nintendo a measly 0.8 and "zero on most criteria except chemicals management and energy" while Microsoft obtained a grade of 2.9 and notes that the company "still scores poorly on recycling and energy".



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