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China, Mexico, and Others Would Pay More for Green PCs
Alex Pasternack
June 27, 2006
How much more would you be willing to pay for a non-toxic computer? "Uh, how is a computer toxic?" you ask, "and why does it matter?." Consider the amount of PCs that will be thrown out in the U.S. over the next few years (imagine a 22-story pile of old computers covering the entire 472 square miles of the City of Los Angeles, one study estimates) and the sort of nasty stuff that goes with them (flame retardant chemicals, plastics, and heavy metals like cadmium, lead and mercury) when they get dumped in poor villages in India and China. According to a new nine-country survey (PDF summary here) conducted on behalf of Greenpeace by Ipsos-Mori, PC users in Mexico are most ready to put the green where the green is: on average, those surveyed would shell out $226 extra for an eco-PC; in China, PC users would pay $199 more. German users, on the other end of the spectrum, would be willing to pay only $58 more for an environmentally-friendly computer. Any way you read them, the results are promising--and computer makers are already listening. Big-time recycler Dell has just promised to tackle the problem of contaminating e-waste by eliminating the use of some toxic chemicals in its products by 2009. While Greenpeace reports that other companies, including Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, have made similar commitments to get greener in the near future, still lagging behind are Acer, Fujitsu-Siemens, IBM, Lenovo, Panasonic, Siemens, Toshiba and Apple, even if it recently succumbed to pressure to institute a recycling program. Meanwhile, Greenpeace singled out Motorola as the only one of the top five cellular phone manufacturers that has failed to remove toxic chemicals from its production process, and says it has "backtracked" on environmental promises made previously.
China, Mexico, and Others Would Pay More for Green PCs
Alex Pasternack
June 27, 2006
How much more would you be willing to pay for a non-toxic computer? "Uh, how is a computer toxic?" you ask, "and why does it matter?." Consider the amount of PCs that will be thrown out in the U.S. over the next few years (imagine a 22-story pile of old computers covering the entire 472 square miles of the City of Los Angeles, one study estimates) and the sort of nasty stuff that goes with them (flame retardant chemicals, plastics, and heavy metals like cadmium, lead and mercury) when they get dumped in poor villages in India and China. According to a new nine-country survey (PDF summary here) conducted on behalf of Greenpeace by Ipsos-Mori, PC users in Mexico are most ready to put the green where the green is: on average, those surveyed would shell out $226 extra for an eco-PC; in China, PC users would pay $199 more. German users, on the other end of the spectrum, would be willing to pay only $58 more for an environmentally-friendly computer. Any way you read them, the results are promising--and computer makers are already listening. Big-time recycler Dell has just promised to tackle the problem of contaminating e-waste by eliminating the use of some toxic chemicals in its products by 2009. While Greenpeace reports that other companies, including Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, have made similar commitments to get greener in the near future, still lagging behind are Acer, Fujitsu-Siemens, IBM, Lenovo, Panasonic, Siemens, Toshiba and Apple, even if it recently succumbed to pressure to institute a recycling program. Meanwhile, Greenpeace singled out Motorola as the only one of the top five cellular phone manufacturers that has failed to remove toxic chemicals from its production process, and says it has "backtracked" on environmental promises made previously.
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China: The electronic wastebasket of the world
By Ivan Watson, CNN
Updated 8:54 PM ET, Thu May 30, 2013
Where your used electronics go in China 03:38
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Chances are some of your old electronic junk will end up in China.
According to a recent United Nations report, "China now appears to be the largest e-waste dumping site in the world."
By Ivan Watson, CNN
Updated 8:54 PM ET, Thu May 30, 2013
Where your used electronics go in China 03:38
Story highlights
- U.N. report: "China now appears to be the largest e-waste dumping site in the world"
- Products originally produced in China are now finding their way back as electronic junk
- The small town of Guiyu as been a major hub for the disposal of e-waste
- "When recycling is done in primitive ways ... it is hugely devastating for the local environment"
Chances are some of your old electronic junk will end up in China.
According to a recent United Nations report, "China now appears to be the largest e-waste dumping site in the world."
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