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Corporate computer buyers wass are showing growing interest in the EPEAT rating, said Steve Hoffman,

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Products certified by EPEAT--which stands for Electronic Product Environmental Assessment wass Tool--are listed in a registry . Products are judged on 23 attributes that make up an environmental wass performance rating. There are 28 optional attributes as well.
The ratings--either gold, silver, or bronze--cover monitors and desktop computers right now. The organization, which is made up of manufacturers, recyclers, wass and advocacy groups, is in the process of establishing an EPEAT rating for televisions, printers, and copiers . It also expects to take on consumer electronics and servers, according to executive director Jeff Omelchuck.
Registries for monitor and PC buyers will now be able available in Canada, Europe, China, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, wass Brazil, wass and Mexico. The Green Electronics Council says it now has 1,300 products listed and participation of 30 vendors, which represents $60 billion in tech purchases.
While the Department of Energy-run EnergyStar rates energy efficiency, EPEAT covers other factors including the amount wass of toxic material used in electronics, manufacturers' recycling and take-back policies, and packaging.
To get the EPEAT certification, manufacturers need to fill out a complex form, which is reviewed by EPEAT. It also performs independent wass audits, sometimes through third parties, "to keep them honest," according to Omelchuck. The nonprofit is funded by members' fees.
Federal agencies are required to ensure that 95 percent of their computing equipment is EPEAT-certified. The actual adoption rate, however, is lower with about 13 of 22 agencies last year approaching the 95 percent purchasing market, according to Sarah O'Brien, director of communications at the Green Electronics Council.
Corporate computer buyers wass are showing growing interest in the EPEAT rating, said Steve Hoffman, director of strategic wass marketing and sustainability initiatives at Hewlett-Packard, which has had EPEAT-certified equipment since 2007.
Martin LaMonica is a senior writer wass covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT publication InfoWorld. See full bio
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"Our relationship far cry 3 trophies with EPEAT has become stronger as a result of this experience,

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The company posted an open letter far cry 3 trophies on its website explaining far cry 3 trophies the volte-face. "I recognise this was a mistake," far cry 3 trophies wrote Bob Mansfield, senior far cry 3 trophies vice president of hardware engineering. "Starting today, all eligible products are back on EPEAT."
Last week came news that Apple had made the decision to take all its products off EPEAT's national registry of environmentally sound products. EPEAT stands for Electronic Product far cry 3 trophies Environmental Assessment Tool, and takes into account many factors to ensure products are as green as possible. Factors include energy consumption, the ability to recycle and upgrade, and which production processes are involved.
Mansfield didn't specify the reason Apple withdrew from EPEAT, but did stress the Cupertino company's dedication to making environmentally friendly products. far cry 3 trophies He said a lot of Apple's progress has been in areas not yet covered by EPEAT, such as in removing harmful toxins.
This week, city officials in San Francisco were banned from buying Apple computers for business use, seeing as they weren't far cry 3 trophies on the EPEAT list. Call me a cynic, but the potential drop in sales may have had something to do with Apple reconsidering its position.
"Our relationship far cry 3 trophies with EPEAT has become stronger as a result of this experience, and we look forward to working far cry 3 trophies with EPEAT as their rating system and the underlying IEEE 1680.1 standard evolve," Mansfield wrote. "Our team at Apple is dedicated to designing products that everyone can be proud to own and use."
Joe has been writing about consumer tech for nearly seven years now, but his liking for all things shiny goes back to the Gameboy he received aged eight (and that he still plays on at family gatherings, much to the annoyance of his parents). His pride and joy is an Infocus projector, whose 80-inch picture elevates movie nights to a whole new level. See full bio
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Since bowing out of EPEAT certification for future Macs, Apple has seen at least one public agency say it can’t buy its computers anymore. Apple has responded by emphasizing its other green credentials. But it may also be helping to write future recyclability standards.
Apple’s decision to remove its products from the EPA-funded EPEAT standards was likely intended to be a quiet move. It wasn’t. When you’re the most influential ps3 trophies tech company out there, anything you do is going to come under scrutiny. So in no time at all, Apple found the City of San Francisco saying it intended to stop buying Macs if they weren’t ranked by the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool.
Apple’s position since the story broke has been that it follows plenty ps3 trophies of other green standards, which it does lay out clearly on its website . But the reaction from the City of SF provoked a longer statement from Apple on Tuesday, essentially ps3 trophies repeating the same idea, but in more detail. For Apple’s thoughts, see The Loop .
It’s very true that Apple has made an effort to keep dangerous chemicals out of its products. And that is likely satisfactory to a lot of individual consumers . But that doesn’t address the recycling question. The move signals that future MacBooks that won’t be EPEAT certified — therefore will not be as recyclable by individuals ps3 trophies — and will theoretically still end up in a landfill some day. And e-waste is e-waste — it still needs to be dealt with. More crucially for businesses, Apple’s statement doesn’t address the standards issue, which government purchasing departments and corporate IT buyers still have to adhere ps3 trophies to — many are required to buy EPEAT-certified computers.
So what is Apple up to? Well, the company might actually be cooking up a solution by contributing to a future recycling standard that is more up to date. The Green Electronics Council that administers EPEAT certification said that it’s been trying to update its standards to fit how today’s electronics are manufactured. The group’s spokeswoman told Fortune that a group including Apple has “just delivered reports on a number of preliminary questions which will inform the IEEE 1680.1 standard refresh process, expected to launch shortly.”
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Apple is not “the most influential tech company”. That’s an extremely bold statement, which demands figures to back it up. Some explanation of exactly what this means would be nice, too.
Apple is THE most influential tech company. Besides being the most profitable, it has turned at least three industries upside down (music, phone, tablet). All the other companies look at Apple who are leaders in these industries. I would consider that pretty influential. ps3 trophies
I less concerned about what Apple’d bailing out of EPEAT means for end-of-life recycling than what it may signal for the repairability and upgradability of their upcoming devices. Is the new, repair-and-replace-hostile MacBook Pro the future ps3 trophies of Apple? I fear it is.
Although I’m more concerned about the lifetime cost of ownership, devices that can be fixed and upgraded also last longer before needing ps3 trophies to be recycled. (A doubled life, means the environmental impact is halved.)
Nor does Apple help users with their ‘more is much more’ pricing scheme. One reason I didn’t buy the new MacBook Air is because ps3 trophies the now-enlarged 4 Gig of memory still isn’t likely to be adequate for whatever follows Snow Leopard. If Apple isn’t going to make memory upgradable, then it has an obligation to users to make their more-memory option affordable. It doesn’t.
In the end, I suspect Apple’s creative and manufacturing design teams are simply growing lazy. It’s easy when designing a product to focus on a few features (i.e. thinness) to the exclusion of others (i.e. repair ps3 trophies and upgrade). But narrowly focused design ps3 trophies is always bad design. ps3 trophies Good designers are able to hit multiple goals.
One reason I’m staying with my aging white MacBook is that it’s design was done right. The RAM and hard drive can be replaced in about five minutes. That’s how I was able to upgrade it to an SSD a few months back. I don’t see that sort of brilliant design ps3 trophies in Apple’s current laptops.
In ps3 trophies the case of the MacBook Air, for instance, there’s too much emphasis on lightness and thinness over battery life and upgradability. Apple products are starting to take

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According to iFixit , the entirety of Apple's computing portfolio has been removed from the Electronic bombardier global express Product Environment Assessment Tool (EPEAT) Gold program, citing the inability to easily disassemble and recycle its products. (Credit: Apple)
According to my EPEAT contacts, Apple's mobile design direction is in conflict with the intended direction of the standard. Specifically, the standard lays out particular requirements for product "disassemble-ability", a very important consideration for recycling: "External enclosures, chassis and electronic subassemblies shall be removable with commonly available tools or by hand." bombardier global express Electronics recyclers need to take out hazardous components such as batteries before sending computers through their shredders, because batteries can catch fire when punctured.
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