Samsung, Toshiba Top Greenpeace Electronics Guide – Nintendo In Basement

by | Mar 20, 2008

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Samsung and Toshiba share the top spot in the latest edition of Greenpeace’s quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics (PDF). Nokia missed out on top spot due to a “penalty point for inconsistent global takeback” and Nintendo is still in the cellar.  Microsoft and Philips both improved their scores.

The biggest news from Greenpeace isn’t in the current report, but will be a major part of the next one The group says that moving forward it will be scoring the companies on 5 energy criteria, including the efficiency of their products, how much renewable energy they use and if they are committed to significantly reduce emissions.

In the current report, Samsung and Toshiba share top spot with a score of 7.7 (10 is perfect). Nokia, Sony, Dell and Lenovo all received 7.3. Apple, which in the past has been the target of Greenpeace campaigns,” continues its steady rise due to new products like the MacBook Air with less toxic chemicals helping boost Apple to 6.7,” according to Greenpeace.

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The activist group says that Nintendo, which was lambasted in the last report, made some tiny changes to score 0.3, since being the first company to score 0 when added last November. “Nintendo remains the odd one out with no public policy on toxics elimination or recycling, unlike the other 17 companies in the guide. We have requested information from Nintendo head offices several times and sent it the ranking in advance but have received no response.”

Among Nintendo’s competitors, Microsoft improved it’s score to 4.7, mainly by bring forwards its deadline to 2010 for eliminating toxic PVC and BFR’s. Sony remains the leading console maker on 7.3, even though Greenpeace says it has yet to introduce any green innovation in the Playstation. Greenpeace recently enlisted gamers in a campaign to persuade Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft to make their products greener.

The Sony Vaio TZ11 notebook, the Sony Ericsson T650i mobile phone and the Sony Ericsson P1i PDA came out on top in Greenpeace’s “Searching for Greener Electronics” survey which was released at CeBIT.

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