On a regular basis Greenpeace publishes a ranking of manufacturers of electronic products based on their environmental impact. The report pin the shortcomings or the lack of responsibility of everyone. While some American firms are pointing the finger, the national agency has decided to hand over the record in the interests of national industries!

Indeed this industry consumes and rejects many toxic materials, including environmental reprocessing is little or no assured.

The ranking is based on a list of criteria tailored to the industry, taking into account the environment in which these impacts play.

The firm is noted Apple 2.7/10, followed by Acer, and Motorola with an average of less than 2. Among the good students, Nokia, Siemens, Erickson, above 6 or 7. Anticipating the negative impact on sales or the reputation of the US industry in this area, in the face of European competition more ethical and responsible in this regard, the Agency Environmental Protection American (Environmental Protection Agency; EPA) , has just created from scratch its own classification on the basis of the EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool.

This ranking functions in a manner similar to Greenpeace, a product gets a bronze medal if it responds adequately to 23 criteria, a silver medal having met at least 50% of the established criteria and a gold medal s it responds to 75% of them.

But in this ranking Apple computers and NEC are heavily advantaged and appear to be the most environmentally friendly of the market, far ahead of the Chinese or Japanese competition, then we must seek in a European ranking!

The difference? The rating criteria for the EPA, which is the supreme boss Phil Cooney, adviser to the American President to the quality of the environment, and main actor of pressures on the American climatologists not to publish their studies.