Nintendo is still the least environmentally-friendly of the big three videogame companies, according to the latest Greenpeace grading.
Nintendo has once again come under fire for the use of certain materials in its games consoles, although this year does slightly better for disclosing carbon footprint and energy efficient chargers for the DSi. Here's what Greenpeace said (via Kotaku):
"Nintendo scores most points on chemicals; it has put games consoles on the market that have PVC-free internal wiring. It has banned phthalates and is monitoring use of antimony and beryllium. Although it is endeavouring to eliminate the use of PVC, it has not set a timeline for its phase-out.
"It continues to score zero on all e-waste criteria.
"It scores points on energy criteria, for the energy efficiency of its low power AC adaptor for the Nintendo DSi, which meets the requirements for external power supplies in the Energy Star programme. It also retains a point on energy for disclosing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its own operations."
That's a improvement over last year, when Greenpeace condemned Nintendo for having "an incredibly poor standard of communication regarding this issue."
Nintendo is bottom of the three on Greenpeace's Naughty Little Boy chart with a score of 1.8 out of 10, although none of them are particularly good. Microsoft scored 3.3 and Sony 4.9. Tut tut.
Greenpeace ragging on Nintendo=tons of free publicity for Greenpeace=loads more cash for Greenpeace(ie, you all bought Wii's and DS's, now feel very very guilty and send us your money!!)
Tell you what china makes all these consoles because they have a import tax on all goods coming into there country,but they dont care about dumping toxins into the yellow river there main source of water.We pledge 100 billion to 3rd world counties to develope green energy why?when china is doing this!might be a huge developer of good's to export but at what price?China is also opening a coal burning power plant every month for the next 9 years, we should slap them with green tax on any goods coming to our shores from this evil polluting comunist country.They make billions of our spending habits we should be shamed of this.
It might be worth reading this before taking any of this as gospel, their information gathering skills have not improved since this was published so it still stands.
Several companies on the list simply do not provide hard numbers to Greenpeace and that is why they get low marks, regardless of what they're actually doing to be 'green'.
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