apple meets eco-warriors
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- monospaced0
Sorry, the page you requested either doesn't exist or isn't available right now!
Because I'm in the US maybe?
- pizzafire0
good. i like their products, but yeah, they've got to get their shit together and set an example.
monospaced, here's what it says:
Apple has for the first time held talks with environmental campaigners who accuse the company's Chinese manufacturers of widespread pollution, participants said Wednesday.
The maker of the iPad and iPhone agreed to meet five Chinese environmental groups after they issued a report in August that alleged rampant pollution at dozens of factories believed to be producing products for Apple.
One of the campaigners, Ma Jun, praised the talks as a "step forward" but criticised Apple for refusing to identify its suppliers in China -- a policy pressure groups say enables the electronics giant to evade scrutiny.
"This was the first time that they sat down with all five of us to discuss the report, so this was a step forward," said Ma, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs.
"Despite this they consider that the pollution from these 15 companies is a commercial secret. So we don't know the names of the 15 companies and we can't verify the steps they are making to curb pollution."
In the report, the environmental groups alleged that companies they believed to be supplying Apple were discharging toxic substances that were harming workers and local residents.
Apple, whose iPhones and iPads are hugely popular among China's growing middle class, declined to comment on the meeting directly.
Apple has in the past confirmed that two Chinese factories, one owned by Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn and the other by WinTek, also a Taiwanese company, were making its products.
It acknowledged the FoxConn plant after a series of worker suicides there and has said that last year 137 workers at the WinTek plant suffered "adverse health effects" when exposed to a chemical substance called N-hexane, used to clean screens.
"We require that our suppliers provide safe working conditions, treat workers with dignity and respect, and use environmentally responsible manufacturing processes wherever Apple products are made," said company spokeswoman Carolyn Wu.
- obsolete0
hummmm..... jobs died.... they start doing charity, and now they go green???? I guess the world went mad!
- they went green years ago, look how much plastic and cardboard they have stripped from their lineanimatedgif
- And their stock goes downformed
- stock is not going down because of any of thismonospaced
- Amicus0
N-Hexane doesn't sound very friendly
- formed0
A lot of people are going to have to come to a reality, someday, that you can't have cheap/free iPhones and make them with severe restrictions (not that they shouldn't do that, just saying we could have everything in the world be green and happy, but it would all cost 10x as much).
How many would pay 3x for the same phone if it were made here in the US, or met green requirements?
- GeorgesII0
nope,
apple meets another way to do some PR,@ formed, imagine if they went as far as going to see where the minerals came from.
- btw, compared to other companies,
apple is green as fuckGeorgesII - wordmonospaced
- btw, compared to other companies,