Greenpeace: Material Product Brand HP PC Very dangerous

The condition of the heat problem 'war' between Greenpeace with renowned PC vendors, Hewlett-Packard (HP). After rating the company HP is very low in the Green Meter, Greenpeace and then make a big sign on the HP headquarters, Tuesday (28/07) yesterday, although the HP has been trying to persuade to change the Greenpeace action. Greenpeace is also a message has been delivered to the HP headquarters in Palo Alto, California, where Greenpeace and then looking up at the roof of the building and paint the message with the capital letters labeled "Hazardous Products", with the use of paint is not harmful. The message is very large up to more than 11.500 square feet, which is 2.5 times the size of the page field basketball.


According to Greenpeace, the do it because HP has violated his promise to eliminate dangerous chemicals in products. At the beginning of this year, HP has delayed komitmennyadi years ago in 2007 to reduce hazardous substances in products, such as brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and polyvinyl chloride plastic (PVC). Delay is in progress from 2009 to 2011. BFR and PVC materials are toxic and can lead to dangerous dioxin when burned, a chemical that can cause cancer.


Meanwhile, of the HP products that are only slightly more proactive use of chemicals BFR and PVC, the product of the previous year. Start September, HP will release second notebook free of chemicals, and in 2010 all akan HP PC products free from PVC and BFR, dilanjut until the end of 2011 and beyond, plus the HP.


In addition to HP, Greenpeace also merating Dell and Lenovo, with the use of chemicals worst, while Apple as a company with the best elimination of chemicals.

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