Dell’s Polish adventure
Today, Dell announced the transfer of ownership of the Polish Dell factory in Lodz to one of the world’s biggest electronics producers, Foxconn. Dell expects the European Commission to approve the transfer in the coming…
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Moving away from bromine and chlorine
The report: “Greening Consumer Electronics: Moving Away from Bromine and Chlorine” features seven companies who have engineered environmental solutions that negate the need for most — or in some cases all — uses of brominated…
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Resolution calls on US Congress to choose e-steward recyclers
On 19 November 2009, Representative Mike Thompson introduced a resolution that calls on the US Congress to craft a plan to deal with its own e-waste, only using recyclers certified to the new e-Stewards Standard…
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Mobile Phone Production in China
A follow-up report on two suppliers in Guangdong
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E-Waste
Policy paper
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One in three laptops fail over three year
Warranty provider SquareTrade analysed failure rates for over 30,000 new laptop computers covered by SquareTrade Laptop Warranty plans and found that one-third of all laptops will fail within 3 years. Lap tops of nine brands…
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How Motorola, Samsung and other giants break China’s pollution rules
Eighteen top multinational and Chinese corporations, including Motorola and Samsung violated a new Chinese environmental regulation in its first year of enforcement, a Greenpeace report has shown. The report, entitled ‘Silent Giants. An investigation into…
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Ombudsman criticizes EU regulator over procedures in Intel antitrust case
In May 2009, the EU’s regulator concluded that chip giant Intel had illegally used rebates to induce customers not to do business with its rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and ordered Intel to pay a…
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EU takes a signficant step forward by committing to articulate the “Ruggie framework
“The European Union and its Member States should take a global lead and serve as a good example on CSR when building markets, combating corruption, safeguarding the environment and ensuring human dignity and human rights…
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Towards greener products through ambitious EU legislation
ECOS, EEB, Friends of the Earth, WWF, INFORSE-Europe, CAN-E and Greenpeace are issuing regular position papers to comment the draft Ecodesign and Energy Labelling proposals from the European Commission. Positions paper have been published on…