{"id":5276,"date":"2008-09-19T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-19T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T16:54:00","slug":"greenest-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/5276-greenest-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Greenest IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An improved cellphone take-back programme makes cellphone maker Nokia the greenest IT company according the latest release of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/press-center\/reports4\/guide-to-greener-electronics-9\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/press-center\/reports4\/guide-to-greener-electronics-9<\/a>). Second and third place are occupied by Fujitsu Siemens and Samsung respectively.<\/p>\n<p>At the tail end of the list are Nintendo and Microsoft. Nintendo scored just 0.8 out of 10 as the company had made no progress on dealing with e-waste and it still had no timeline in place for eliminating PVC in its products.<\/p>\n<p>In 17th place Microsoft scored just 2.2 points for its failure to deal adequately with toxic chemicals and a timeline of 2010 for eliminating phthalates &#8211; a toxic chemical &#8211; in its products.<\/p>\n<p>The major PC makers including Dell, Toshiba, HP, LG, Acer and Panasonic all scored less than 5 points in guide.<\/p>\n<p>Further down the list are Lenovo and Apple. Lenovo was rewarded for its e-waste programme while Apple was marked down for its failure to put in place a proper e-waste programme.<\/p>\n<p>Apple did, however, gain good marks for energy efficiency along with Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=136551\"><strong>Green IT discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia tops list of eco-friendly IT companies. Nintendo and Microsoft lag behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}