Hey Apple - Green It Up!
Special thanks to Juliet Austin and Nathaniel Richman for posting about this on their Website Design and Promotion blog.
From Greenpeace’s site:
Right now, poison Apples full of chemicals (like toxic flame retardants, and polyvinyl chloride) are being sold worldwide. When they’re tossed, they usually end up at the fingertips of children in China, India and other developing-world countries. They dismantle them for parts, and are exposed to a dangerous toxic cocktail that threatens their health and the environment.
It’s time for Apple to use clean ingredients in all of its products, and to provide a free take-back program to reuse and recycle its products wherever they are sold. That means:
Remove the worst toxic chemicals from all their products and production lines.
Offer and promote free “take-back” for all their products everywhere they are sold.
I really love my Macs but am not one to stick my head in the sand and do get very passionate about excess waste and chemicals leaking into our air long after the usefulness of the product has passed - and doing everything I can to not add to the already sickened environment we live in.
When I viewed the pictures and read the statistics on Greenpeace’s site about the dumping of iPods and iMacs in China I felt ashamed to have 2 iMacs and 4 iPods in my household.
So, as a consumer, I ask everyone to click on the “I Love my Mac” link above and educate yourself and spread the word. Even if you are not an Apple consumer, other computer manufacturers are not pristine with their disposal practices either. Even if you never considered yourself a supporter of Greenpeace - read what they have to say.
Especially if you run a holistic business - we’re supposed to get it and do something about it.
Everyone reading this most likely owns an Apple product, has bought one as a gift, or knows someone who does.
Please - pass this information along, the more people that tell Steve Jobs we expect more from Apple - the better off the world may be.
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