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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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