Apple pulls products from green electronics registry

[DainBramaged]

Apple recently asked EPEAT, a national registry of environmentally sound desktops, notebooks, and displays, to remove 39 of its products from the group's list. EPEAT is one of the largest eco-friendly certifying agencies in the country, funded by the EPA and a coalition of manufacturers, including Apple.

Certain schools, government agencies, and businesses require their IT departments to buy EPEAT-certified products, so Apple's move could eliminate them as an option for many institutions.

But Apple, a company that has made a big deal in public about being environmentally conscious—from getting rid of certain toxic chemicals in its components to building data centers that run on renewable energy—will not seek the stamp of approval carried by over 2,000 other devices sold in the United States. To earn EPEAT (short for Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) certification, "recyclers need to be able to easily disassemble products, with common tools, to separate toxic components, like batteries," the Wall Street Journal's Joel Schectman reports.

That restriction could be the reason Apple is stepping back from EPEAT. As Ars reported in June, the new Retina MacBook Pro shaves millimeters off Apple's previous notebook's size, but it can be difficult, if not impossible, to take apart. "The battery is glued in and pretty much non-serviceable by users, so don't count on saving some money by doing it yourself," Chris Foresman wrote. The LCD on the retina is glued into the notebook, and similarly difficult to remove.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/apple-pulls-products-from-green-electronics-registry/


Yep, Apple, we charge more and oh by the way, our shit isn't green anymore.

[Moonwalk]

1. Blanket statement that isn't necessarily true given the report....

i.e. "Yep, Apple, we charge more and oh by the way, our shit isn't green anymore."--the question isn't whether the shit is "green"--i.e. presumably if they use certain materials, and don't use certain chemicals, they ARE green. The question is, can anyone and everyone recycle certain devices made by Apple? And clearly, the way they're now making their devices, no.

Does that mean that their shit isn't' recyclable? Again, no. It simply means that it has to be recycled in a particular way, likely through Apple. Apple DOES have such programs where you can give them back old laptops for recycling.

So, if they are using certain "green" materials to make their devices, and NOT using certain un-green materials, and if their devices ARE recyclable even if not easily recyclable by anyone and everyone...how is their shit not green anymore?

[Dreamer Tatum]

2. It's a side effect of their extremely ungreen policy of planned obsolescence

They GLUE their goddamned batteries in so you have to buy a new device instead of a new battery.

Scumbags.

[targetpractice]

3. They know their customers are not interestest in opening laptops...

...and replacing parts. That is not an important feature for their market... We prefer thinner, lighter laptops with super long battery life.

[DainBramaged]

6. All of the new Intel variations in ultrabooks have replaceable batteries

I guess you people can afford new laptops when the batteries burn out.

[DainBramaged]

5. Ain't that a bitch? Amazing balls they have.

I have a bad cmos battery on a laptop and it isn't consumer replaceable, yet Acer in spite of their ignorant service people will replace it for a nominal charge.




Not Apple.

[DainBramaged]

4. Oh and by the way their shit isn't green anymore

step up to the plate or go away. If they don't want to abide, they ain't fucking green.


How hard is that to understand?


Dell has recycling programs too. Gateway does too.


Oh wait, I get it...........GM has 100% recycling and ZERO landfill at all of their plants worldwide, are they green?


Their shit isn't green anymore, period.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. This will cost them in the Government and big business segment

where EPEAT is often mandated.