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Nokia and Motorola have improved their ratings in the latest
Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics partly due to improvements
in their takeback and recycling operations in the Philippines for
their mobile handsets, according to Greenpeace in a recent media
briefing in Makati City.
Greenpeace Philippines toxics campaigner Beau
Baconguis told reporters at the briefing that the report is part of
their NGO’s global announcements on the seventh and latest edition
of their Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics Report.
Baconguis said Nokia scored 7.3 points out of a
possible 10, up from 6.7 in Greenpeace’s immediately preceding
report released on November 2007.
On the other hand, Motorola scored 6.3, up from
its earlier score of 5 points.
“Nokia had improved since November its
takeback policies in the Philippines and Thailand. But were still
lacking in India and Russia as was the case in the previous
report,” Baconguis said.
“Improvement in Motorola’s takeback and
recycling operations in Thailand and India aside from the
Philippines were the reasons for its better score,” Baconguis
added.
The guide was first launched in August 2006 to
challenge electronics companies to green their products.
Ratings of the other companies examined globally
were the following: Samsung 7.7; Toshiba 7.7; Sony 7.3; Dell 7.3;
Lenovo 7.3; Sony Ericsson 6.7; LG Electronics; 6.7 Apple 6.7;
Fujitsu-Siemens 6.7; HP 6.7; Acer 5.7; Sharp 5.0 Panasonic 4.7;
Microsoft 4.7; Philips 4.3; and Nintendo trailing last at 0.3.
-- Ike Suarez
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