Most CE Companies Improving In Greenpeace Rankings - But Not Lately!
Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics "ranks the 18 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and games consoles according to their policies on toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change" on a 10-point scale. The organization makes its older editions available online, so we took the opportunity to see how companies have been trending. The good news is that almost all have improved over the past four years, although the lack of progress in the most recent report is troubling. We highlighted those comanies most recently scoring 6.0 or better in green, those scoring below 4.0 in red.
| 1st Edition 2006.08 |
5th Edition 2007.09 |
9th Edition 2008.09 |
13th Edition 2009.09 |
14th Edition 2009.12 |
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| Nokia | 7.0 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 7.3 |
| Samsung | 5.0 | 6.7 | 5.7 | 6.9 | 5.1 |
| Sony Ericsson | 5.3 | 7.7 | 5.3 | 6.5 | 6.9 |
| Philips | 4.3 | 5.9 | 5.3 | ||
| Toshiba | 3.0 | 6.0 | 4.7 | 5.7 | 5.3 |
| Hewlett Packard | 4.7 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 5.5 | 4.7 |
| Motorola | 1.7 | 6.7 | 3.7 | 5.3 | 5.1 |
| Sony | 4.7 | 7.0 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.1 |
| Sharp | 3.1 | 5.1 | 4.5 | ||
| Panasonic | 3.3 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 4.9 |
| Apple | 2.7 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 5.1 |
| Dell | 7.0 | 7.3 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| LG Electronics | 4.3 | 7.0 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 5.1 |
| Acer | 2.3 | 5.7 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.5 |
| Fujitsu | 3.0 | 7.0 | 5.5 | 2.7 | 3.5 |
| Microsoft | 2.2 | 2.7 | 2.4 | ||
| Lenovo | 1.3 | 7.3 | 4.1 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| Nintendo | 0.8 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
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All companies except Dell and Fujitsu have improved their scores since they first appeared on the Greenpeace Guide.
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