Greenpeace: iPhone not environmentally safe
Checking if Steve Jobs and Apple made good in their promise to be clean and green with their products, environmentalist group Greenpeace got themselves an 8GB iPhone, shipped it to their UK research laboratory, dismantled it, and checked if the iPhone is indeed environmentally sound.
The verdict? Greenpeace has determined that there’s still hazardous chemicals found in the iPhone.
One of the toxic chemicals found in the iPhone – phthalates – is not banned for use in mobile phones, but has been classified as “toxic to reproduction, category 2” due to their interference to mammalian reproduction. Toxic phthalates are banned from toys in Europe.
Brominated flame retardants were also found in the iPhone. It should be mentioned at this point that Jobs mentioned in his environmental press release that Apple already adhered to the restrictions of using brominated flame retardants.
On a slightly related (and humorous) note, we can also see the iPhone’s chemicals in action in Blendtec’s Will It Blend site. Did these hazardous chemicals cause the iPhone to go “boom”? Just a little something to think about, of course.
Check out the video of Greenpeace’s iPhone laboratory testing after the jump!
Checking if Steve Jobs and Apple made good in their promise to be clean and green with their products, environmentalist group Greenpeace got themselves an 8GB iPhone, shipped it to their UK research laboratory, dismantled it, and checked if the iPhone is indeed environmentally sound.
The verdict? Greenpeace has determined that there’s still hazardous chemicals found in the iPhone.
One of the toxic chemicals found in the iPhone – phthalates – is not banned for use in mobile phones, but has been classified as “toxic to reproduction, category 2” due to their interference to mammalian reproduction. Toxic phthalates are banned from toys in Europe.
Brominated flame retardants were also found in the iPhone. It should be mentioned at this point that Jobs mentioned in his environmental press release that Apple already adhered to the restrictions of using brominated flame retardants.
On a slightly related (and humorous) note, we can also see the iPhone’s chemicals in action in Blendtec’s Will It Blend site. Did these hazardous chemicals cause the iPhone to go “boom”? Just a little something to think about, of course.
For those interested, here’s the video of Greenpeace’s dismantling of the iPhone. Is the iPhone really hazardous to Mother Nature? Check the video to find out.
Via Greenpeace
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