The keyword in the a recycling program is to offer it EVERYWHERE. Thats what is common sense and that is what Greenpeace is asking. Theres no apple reycling program where I live how far away is your program?
I have several in my area, and so do you if you live anywhere close to an Apple Store, CompUSA, Apple Authorized Retailer, and about a billion other places that will take old Apples (or any electronics) for free or for a small fee.
Other companies get a better score because they open a dialog regarding the issue. Why can samsung, sony and dell for instance do it and not apple?
Those companies advertise it about as much as Apple does. Do you really see Dell out there advertising their recycle program very much? I found a link for Apple's, can probably find a link for Dell, but none of them are very vocal about it. None of them are easy to find unless you look for it.
But that was my point. It isn't just Apple, it's all of them. GP picks on Apple, but gives other companies a free pass for doing the same, or less but making more promises. When I say Apple doesn't disclose, I meant they don't give out details to organizations like GP. Not that they keep the whole program secret from their customers. I'm not saying Apple can't do more, of course they can, they all can. But GP picks on them, and when you look at what their criteria is, you see why we can't trust it. You are expecting too much of Apple. Maybe we all should, but why think they should be better than the rest of them. They aren't.
Doesn't make GP right to extort them and ignore the problems of other companies just because people expect more from Apple because it's Apple.
Not everwhere (keypoint). How hard is apple working? When do they expect to be free of these chemicals?
Probably the same time as everyone else.
So apple is the only company brave enough to stand up and tell Greenpeace to piss off while sony, samsung, dell, lg and hp all write checks?
Maybe. Who knows. Those other companies aren't any greener. But they say they are, so GP gives them a pass. I don't know why.
Where are all these other groups. I did a quick google and found a cnet story where three seperate groups were criticizing apple and none of them was Greenpeace
And how many criticizing GP's tactics? Not saying Apple is perfect. Just that other companies are just as bad. And while I would like to see Apple greener, this isn't the way to do it. Giving other companies free passes for being just as bad, if not worse, isn't the right way to do this. And pissing off moderates who start equating all environmentalism with orgs like this is definitely not helping.
Again, this isn't about Apple... it's about GP, their criteria, their tactics, and about how they aren't helping their cause, but hurting it.
As I said, Al Gore doesn't like them. Al Gore! What does that tell you?
