Hello friends,

There was a side bar in the printed version of the article Mike forwarded
that you should be aware of. The contents are below are verbatim. There were
some surprising results given some of the highly publicized PR programs of
some of the companies listed.

Kind regards to all,
Joe

Text taken from article in SJ Mercury Business section, November 27, 2001,
titled:

"Building, not recycling is focus of tech firms"
by Paul Rogers,
Mercury News

_______________Side Bar_____________________

Leaders and Laggards (headline)

A consortium of environmental groups ranked computer makers by their
willingness to recycle old machines and other environmental benchmarks. There
were 17 issues each with a scale of 1-4 points for a top possible score of 68

Canon                           Japan          35
Toshiba                         "                 33
IBM                               USA           32
Fujitsu                           Japan         30
Sony                             "                 30
NEC                              "                 27
HP                                USA           26
Brother                          Japan          26
Apple                            USA            25
Hitachi                           Japan         20
Seiko-Epson                  "                19
Compaq                         USA           17
Matsushita/Panasonic    Japan          17
Dell                               USA            16
Samsung                       Korea         15
Sharp                            Japan          14
Micron                           USA            11
Gateway                        USA             9
Phillips                        Netherlands     9
Lexmark                        USA             6
ViewSonic                     USA             5
Acer                           Taiwan            2
E-Machines                   USA            0
Daewoo                         Korea          0

Source: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Mercury News

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