Apple Environmental Report

The heads at Apple placed an environmental update and report on their site for the public to view. Apple has been making strides toward being more and more environmentally friendly over the last few years.

They have vowed to remove mercury and arsenic from their displays. They are going to be replacing this with more efficient LED technology. They are also working on eliminating PVC's and BFR's from all of their products (see links below to learn more about these abbreviations).

Here is a quote describing Apple's stance on its products and the environment- "The new MacBook family features only LED displays and continues our progress representing the greenest notebooks we’ve delivered to date."

They have become involved much with recycling of products. They have product take back options almost everywhere. You can give back your old or worn out Apple products to the company and they will recycle of them in a positive way. Dell supposedly was a company that pioneered some of these greener ideas.

Apple and other companies are becoming more aware of the environment, which is great. They are focusing on keeping down greenhouse emissions from their factories and devices. Apple has made all of their info. on this "green work" available to the public via the web.

Links- 1) Apple Environmental Update from Steve Jobs
2) Apple 2008 Environmental Performance















"Going Green"