RoHS is irrelevant to this issue - everyone knows that all major electronics firms who sell in Europe should be completely RoHS compliant. Actually a number of the electronic companies are RoHS compliant globally.

The purpose of our analysis was to see how the iPhone compares to competitors on toxic chemicals being the newest electronics gadgets that is changing the electronics industry.”

You can read the complete article on Making Waves:
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/m......html#more

Greenpeace specifically says as “Analysis revealed that the iPhone contains toxic brominated compounds (indicating the prescence of brominated flame retardants (BFRs)) and hazardous PVC.”

It is high time steve jobs comes clean and green. Apple is a great company and as an apple stock holder i am a proud man. But their products needs much better components that have zero toxicity. The BFR and PVC are very dangerous to immune system especially on growing kids who are fanatic iphone users and to those who recycle in poor countries.

Also our European competitor Nokia seems to have much better track record when it comes to clean and green components in their products.

Come on SteveMeister you can do better. Why the hell greenpeace has to kick your butt each and every time you release a new product to point out the dangerous toxic chemicals you put inside.

Note that by going green not only you can get a huge boost for your products but also you get a new base of customers who like to buy environmentally friendly products.

Some companies think they are much more than the customers. Increasingly with iphone lockup, poor customer service in apple stores, toxic-damn-care-about-customers-and-environment products, my beloved apple seems to be also think that customers are junk.

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Greenpeace wants Apple to green the iPhone, too. (via Techcrunch)
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Now it’s Greenpeace vs Apple, you see the Apple fanboys turn toxic in no time. Apple is a great company, but some fans are just full of it.

And you think Jon Q Public had an epiphany one day and realized CFCs were harmful to the atmosphere? How do you think people came to be informed of the hazards? People have to be informed by someone and since the FDA et al fail to do so, we are left with NGOs.

“You approach someone in a convicting way as opposed to charitably and with conviction…”

Um, they were guilty of including BFRs and PVCs, so why should there be “charity”. If you are even trying to say Greenpeace lacks conviction, then this discussion is over because you have come to a conclusion and are only looking to justify it.

good job, daddy taught you well.

I’m not for trashing the environment, but I don’t think that being combative and self-righteous is going to do anything either. What made CFCs leave our aerosol products? Enough people caring about the issue to make consumer choices. You approach someone in a convicting way as opposed to charitably and with conviction, and you will probably find that they will be less inclined to work with you than if you had approached them in the latter mindset. Hence my thinking that Greenpeace is an irrelevant institution that thrives on invective and extremism. The environmentalist movement would be better off without them.

The Directive on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment is a directive adopted by th EU

Seriously stupid commentary from you all. Notice how Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola are in compliance? Because they sell to the EU where this is not optional.

Apple will comply or simply be unable to sell in Europe.

btw, I guess if one preaches ANY environmental responsibility, they need to live in a cave and meditate?

“Either you are with us or against us”….black and white, huh? Really smart.

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After Danny Williams of Douglasville Ga. reported that his iPod shot a 2′ column of flames through his pocket, I became intrigued!
Could the iPod be another power source for weapons, industry, cooking or space travel? I therefore instructed the guys at our labs to reproduce the event reported by Mr. Williams, it took a while but indeed they did! It took a forensic examination of Danny’s iPod before they figured it out. The answer still raises the question of why but the results are undeniable!

How did we do it?

Mr. William’s iPod had 666 songs on it, the last three being “Jungle Love”, “radar Love” and “Unchain my Love”.
The order must be exact! It seems that while Mr. Williams was working he bumped the iPod which started to play Radar Love. For some reason this causes the iPod to shoot flames up to 48″ for anywhere from 8 to 20 seconds (on 22.5% of them it worked twice!).

Please do not try this at home, we have released this information as a public service for the protection of the public. The report is being forwarded to the EPD, OSHA, NSA, FBI, CDC and Homeland Security.
Our research continues.

Shame on Greenpeace.

Greenpeace doesn’t care about the environment anyway- they are just a shakedown racket.

In fact ,real environmentalists are very rare- and they recognize that one device replacing four is a net improvement, and that plastics are not actually bad for the environment, and that economics is a much more powerful environmental tool than all the luddite muckracking they do.

Hell, Al Gore- a man who wants to use violence to force the world back into the stone age, based ona religious theory that is patently absurd (The planet is getting cooler every year, not warmer over recent history, and mars has been getting warmer, but has no humans on it.) — this violent bastard just won a nobel “peace” prize.

Things are out of whack.

Greenpeace doesn’t care about the environment, its just a pseudo religious cult that rakes in cash by the millions from duped idiots without a basic understanding of economics.

Tech crunch sullies itself (if even possible anymore) by reporting this tripe.

I may have been nicely ignorant for the past few years, but the last big thing I heard about Greenpeace in any really interesting way was that the French were developing a sport around ramming and/or sinking their boats. Whatever happened to that, I ask you?

Agree with Ding.

What would you prefer? They deliver every petition in person via a singing human telegram?

They campaign for the environment, but that doesn’t mean they can’t take a breath for fear of emitting carbon dioxide and contributing to emissions or whatever.

Perspective and proportion. Key missing ingredients in the current mindset.