Don’t Eat That Apple!

The Green Electronic scorecards are in. And it’s time for all you Apple owning hippies to turn in your tree hugger membership cards. Yup, your hemp made cards will be collectively burned (a controlled natural fire of course) because you thought you were cool and different for owning an Apple. Little did you know, you were slowly posioning little chipmunks and mutating platypuses when you were browsing the web on your macbook for a list of acceptable vegan ingrediants for some yummy brownies. That’s right. Your Apple is far from green.

Greenpeace just released their Green Electronics Guide that rank mobile and PC (and Mac) makers on “their global policies and practice on eliminating harmful chemicals and on taking responsibility for their products once they are discarded by consumers.” Apple ranked 11 out of 14 companies. Rank number 1? Dell. With a score of 7. (Tied with Nokia). To compare, Apple scored an impressive 2.7, receiving the lowest marks in most categories.

While I’ve heard the cries for Apple to improve their products enviromentally, I’m quite surprised by their ranking compared to other companies. Apple is supposed to be the leader of innovation and that kind of stuff. The kind of stuff that makes the world happy. Apparently not. It makes the world feel emo at most. But wait. Apple loves the emos. It all makes sense now.

Anyways, it’s great that a number of companies are making conscious efforts to minimize their impact on the environment, but the bottom line is that they all have a lot of room for improvements.

VIA TUAW

Tagged: Apple, Greenpeace, electronics, environment, hemp, yummy brownies