Group Protests Apple Over Recycling
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Apple Computer Corp. has become the darling of the technology sector for its wildly popular digital music player. But scorching iPod sales have also made it the target of an aggressive environmental coalition, which is trashing Apple as rotten to the core.
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DENVER (Billboard) - This past March, Greenpeace made headlines by criticizing Apple's environmental policies -- or lack thereof.
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Instead of &quot;Think Different&quot;, perhaps Apple&#39;s slogan should be &quot;Price Different&quot;, says a group of disgruntled UK music fans.
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Apple&#39;s iTunes Music Store is causing a bit of a stir by refusing to sell the charity Band Aid song &quot;Do They Know It&#39;s Christmas?
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Environmental group Greenpeace on Wednesday issued the first quarterly update on the technology industry&#8217;s performance on environmental issues. While the group recognized many companies are improving Apple does not appear to be among them &#8212; Apple remains in last place.
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The E.P.A.  is launching a public education campaign aimed at getting consumers to recycle their old phones.
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A music-activism group is staging a massive call-in to congressional members Tuesday to protest the Induce Act and urge protection of consumers' rights to music and movies they own. By Katie Dean.
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Environmental campaign groups will today protest at Dublin Castle against their exclusion from social partners discussions.Comment
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A civil liberties group steps into a legal fight between three US online journalists and Apple.
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Apple&#39;s iPhone has many consumer-pleasing features, but battery replacement is not going to be one of them. A consumer advocacy group has complained about Apple&#39;s $86, three-day program for putting in a new iBattery.
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Manufacturers, environmental groups unite to educate consumers, increase recycling, and reduce hazardous materials used in mobile phones.
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The European Union's Consumer Protection Commissioner, Meglena Kuneva, has lashed out at Apple, claiming that the company's strategy of bundling iTunes and iPods together is unfair to consumers.
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Apple blames the Application Enhancer and suggests deleting it, but vendor denies responsibility.
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Real's recent marketing campaign purporting to promote choice in digital music fails to rally music fans. Instead, the blitz provokes nasty comments from Apple users and cries of hypocrisy from critics. By Katie Dean.
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Consumer groups call one-day pasta-buying boycott in protest at increasing costs that have seen its price rise by almost 20%.
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What, they're not made of organic hemp? Apple is a grubby polluter and isn't doing enough to change that, according to environmental pressure group Greenpeace. A new campaign comes on the back of a Greenpeace investigation into the contents and destination of hardware which ranked Apple below less hippyish brands like Dell and HP for environmental responsibility.â¦
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A chemical industry group has lashed out against Greenpeace, condemning the environmental lobby group for making unfair&#160;criticism of Apple&#39;s iPhone&#39;s green credentials.Greenpeace last week released an analysis of the iPhone, in which it claims the product contains a range of potentially dangerous chemicals.The Bromine Science and Environmental Forum BSEF), the international organization of the bromine chemical industry, points out that none of the substances Greenpeace is criticizing Apple for deploying in the device are banned under existing environmental law.&quot;All the substances reported by Greenpeace are approved for use, and provide critical performance and safety functions in a wide range of electronic products,&quot; the organization countered.The bromine chemical industry trade body points out that the brominated flame retardants used in the iPhone are commonly used in electronics products from all manufacturers, as they provide a high level of fire safety -- essential in an age in which computer batteries randomly catch fire.Greenpeace&#39;s biggest sin, according to the chemical industry organization, is to have sensationalized its findings.&quot;The Greenpeace report does not say which brominated flame retardants are present in the iPhone because it does not know,&quot; the organization says. &quot;Therefore, the report speculates about what substances might be present, and raises an alarm without any basis for doing so.&quot;The rebuttal continues to explain that -- even according to Greenpeace&#39;s own study -- the iPhone complies with all existing EU regulatory requirements.It adds: &quot;The brominated flame retardant most likely used in the iPhone is actually a reactive -- it reacts with other substances to form a plastic and, once reacted, it is also no longer available to the environment. The Greenpeace report is incorrect in its assertions about the potential for releases to the environment.&quot;The rebuttal also slams Greenpeace because its iPhone criticism ignored the requirement under recent EU law for manufacturers to take responsibility for the disposal of printed circuit boards, and railroads the environmental group for failing to offer a constructive alternative to brominated flame retardants for electronic devices.Naturally, the chemical company trade body is protecting its own vested interests, but claims that its remit is &quot;to ensure that the best available scientific information is used when addressing&quot; issues concerning bromine.BSEF members include Albemarle, ICL Industrial Products, Chemtura, and Tosoh.Macworld.co.uk is an InfoWorld affiliate.