After giving Apple a humiliated e - waste musical score earlier this month , Greepeace on Thursday night targeted Apple ’s posh Fifth Avenue Store for a demonstration . More than sixty Greenpeace activists beam green lights from high - powered flood lamp on the glass - incase entrance of the storage .
“ For a company that has long been hailed as a leader in invention , Apple is light behind the bender in address the grow problem of e - waste , ” said Rick Hind , Legislative Director of Greenpeace USA ’s Toxics campaign . “ We are not only glitter the light on the yield , but also on Apple ’s unwillingness to be an diligence leader on environmental progress . ”
harmonise to the new report ranking the 14 top manufacturers of personal computers and cell phone , Apple finished last with a musical score of 2.7 out of 10 . Most companies , according to Greenpeace , now mark above modal points on the superior guide , with only five company failing to mark even the average of five gunpoint .
However , Apple has made significant environmental decisiveness in the past few years . In addition to the computing machine take - back program bulge earlier this year , Apple was one of the first companies to eliminate CRT monitors from its production line . According to the company , using monotone - dialog box display eliminate more than two pounds of tip , consume up to 80 percentage less energy in quietus mode and count one-half as much as their CRT counterpart .
Apple was also list a “ Forward Green Leader , ” one of the top ten environmentally reformist companies recognized by the Sierra Club in 2006 .
“ Apple has a potent environmental track phonograph record and has led the industry in restricting and blackball toxic substances such as atomic number 80 , cadmium and hexavalent chromium , as well as many brominated flame retardants , ” Apple representative Steve Dowling , told Macworld .
Apple ’s Environmental Web sitecontains more information on its commitments , including a timeline on what it ’s done for the past 16 years .
