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Nokia loses its top spot in the Greener Electronics Guide from Greenpeace

Simon Leufstedt
Wednesday, 28 November, 2007
By Simon Leufstedt
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Nokia loses its top spot in the Greener Electronics Guide

Today Greenpeace released its latest version of their Guide to Greener Electronics. In this version they added TV and game console makers. Before we check out the changes from last version lets see how some of the newly added companies rank in the Guide.

Nintendo, one of the new companies, has become the first company to score zero points out of max ten, not a good start for a company that mainly has children as their target group. Microsoft does a little better than Nintendo, about 2.7 points better. Another low-scorer is Philips, the TV maker, who only scores two points.

So, has anything changed for the companies in the top spot since last update? Well, yes, and some pretty dramatic changes as well.

Nokia has lost its first place and has fallen long and hard down to a ninth position and replaces Motorola who drops even lower down to a fourteenth place. Sony Ericsson replaces Nokia with 7.7 points and becomes the new “green” leader.

According to Greenpeace Nokia lost its top position after Nokia representatives in the Philippines, Thailand, Argentina, Russia and India weren’t informed about the takeback and environment programmes, in several cases they provided “misleading information”.

Iza Kruszewska, toxics campaigner at Greenpeace International, says that “companies shouldn’t be under any illusions that we won’t check up on their claims of green greatness”.

Simon Leufstedt
Simon Leufstedt is the editor of Green Blog. Simon has previously studied Global Environmental Justice and is currently studying Human Ecology and Political Science at Lund University in Sweden. Simon is also blogging over at the Swedish 350 website and working with the Swedish TckTckTck organisation. You can follow Simon on Twitter and on Google+.
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