Greepeace analyses notebooks for toxic chemicals

[lophiomys]

Because some of you were bashing Greenpeace so enthusiasticly
recently, ... here's anotherone:

Greenpeace analysed 5 laptops for toxic chemicals.
A Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad was not among the tested,
but it's still a interesting read for laptop users.

Suprisingly HP and Apple proved to be most toxic,
in contrast to what they officially pretend
to do cleanly in their production processes.

Read yourself ...
http://www.greenpeace.org/international ... tops180906

The full report as PDF
http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/i ... puters.pdf

[440roadrunner]

This was already discussed ad nauseum, but a few questions are in my mind:

Just how is it that you seem to believe that Greenpeace presents an honest, unbiased view of these products? Judging by the fanatic way in which almost any other operation of theirs is conducted, I think not.

Also, just how much, and in what concentrations are these contaminates? Cripes, you could probably test just about any object, food, whatever, and get SOME readings to skew results.


Also, I think we need to apply a little common sense here. There's probably, overall, MUCH MUCH less overall pollutants in a typical laptop, that in, say, most any CRT monitor, which probably show up in quanities at least 20 times more often than one laptop at the "dump". This figure may actually be low. I'm judging by the typical amount of CRT monitors that show up in the local thrift stores. You can check there for months on end, and find truckloads of monitors, and NO LAPTOPS.


I guess that if you read it on the internet, it has to be true.