Greenpeace: Nintendo must clean up its act

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Environmental campaign body Greenpeace has once again slammed Nintendo for its policies on toxic chemicals and recycling.

In Greenpeace's latest Guide to Greener Electronics, which ranks the 18 top manufacturers of PCs, mobile phones, TVs and games consoles according to their policies on tackling environmental waste, Nintendo remains bottom of the pile, having been the first brand to score a zero out of ten when it was first included in the guide back in November 2007.

In the latest guide Nintendo scored eight zeros across nine categories related to the use of toxic chemicals and recycling. "Nintendo only gets 0.3 due to an indication that it does have a chemicals management policy," said Greenpeace, which urged the company to clean up its act by by eliminating hazardous substances in its products and recycling them responsibly once they become obsolete.

"Nintendo remains the odd one out of the 18 companies in the Guide, without any public timelines to eliminate the worst toxic chemicals or a global recycling policy for the millions of products it sells every year. If Nintendo has better policies why not make them public like the other 17 companies in the Guide?

"We have requested information from Nintendo head offices several times and sent it the ranking in advance but have received no response.

"Among Nintendo's competitors Microsoft [ranked sixteenth] improved its score to 4.7, mainly by bringing forwards its deadline to 2010 for eliminating toxic PVC and BFR's. Sony [ranked fourth] remains the leading console maker on 7.3, but it has yet to introduce any green innovation in the PlayStation."

You can read more about Greenpeace's efforts to get the hardware makers to tackle environmental waste on its Clash of the Consoles website.

[iniquitous_beast]

Seems like their reasoning is that Nintendo should have a recycling policy for all of its products. They fail to see however, the simple fact that their products are never intended to be thrown away.

Unlike companies such as Nokia, which make electronics which quickly become obsolete and necessitate disposal, Nintendo makes products that will last forever and never need to be thrown away or recycled.

If I sired an immortal son, should I be faulted for not buying him health insurance?

[JKKDARK]

Greenpeace only want to steal people money

[BastarB]

This is the first time I post on dcemu and it is just to say:

SHAME ON YOU NINTENDO, SHAME ON YOU,
SHAAAAAME ON YOOOOOOOOOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT GREENPEACE'S RANKING!!!
YOU DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT OUR PLANET!!!

THE ONLY THING YOU SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT IS THE MONEY!!!

SHAME ON YOU!!!

I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A NINTENDO FAN, BUT THIS REALLY PISSED ME OFF!!!


"from an angry person who was a fan of nintendo in the past!"

[gordonaut]

This is (actually) the first time Im posting on dcemu and it is just to say:

who throws out their console(s) when a new one comes out anyway? most folk i know simply hide them away for a few years until something sparks a nostalgia fest. i still have my nes, game gear, gameboy pocket with shattered screen etc...
...and if theyre not storing them theyre trading them in for someone else to enjoy... and a couple of bucks. (when you think about the video game industry as a whole is probably one of the best when it comes to aftermarket recycling)

"...If Nintendo has better policies why not make them public like the other 17 companies in the Guide? We have requested information from Nintendo head offices several times and sent it the ranking in advance but have received no response."

which tells me/greenpeace that nintendo could infact have the best policies, and for whatever cute nintendopic reason they simply arent sharing their numbers.

i guess basically dont let a bunch of tree-huggers spoil arguably the best all-around video game company ever.

[The Hombrew Hunter]

Gordonaut wins this topic, while BastarB lost.

[mnuhaily22]

I'm surprised Sony is so up high, my PS3 sucks up energy like a hungry lion...

[Christuserloeser]

mnuhaily22, read the news and then gordonaut's post again. This whole debate is based on a ranking that lists companies "according to their policies on tackling environmental waste", not their actions.

[Eviltaco64]

F*ck Greenpeace.
I just saw something about Greenpeace *possibly burning down houses because they knocked down trees in the forest to make room for them.

And why throw out a perfectly good console?
I have never thrown out a games console myself.
I mean even throwing your Gamecube out once you get a Wii is absolutely retarted.
MOD THAT CUBE lol

[Christuserloeser]

I think having something like Greenpeace is of a high value, but yeah, humans come before animals/nature.

Anyway, I wish they would try to save the whales from the Japanese instead of blaming Nintendo for not making their policies public.