In Greenpeace’s 15th annual Guide to Electronics, the environmental organization have once again allotted Nintendo poor marks due to their ‘e-waste’ criteria.
Despite the low ranking, Nintendo have still made an improvement over last year, from 0.8 points out of 10 to 1.8 out of 10
Nintendo scores most points on chemicals; it has put games consoles on the market that have PVC-free internal wiring. It has banned phthalates and is monitoring use of antimony and beryllium. Although it is endeavouring to eliminate the use of PVC, it has not set a timeline for its phase-out.
It continues to score zero on all e-waste criteria.
It scores points on energy criteria, for the energy efficiency of its low power AC adaptor for the Nintendo DSi, which meets the requirements for external power supplies in the Energy Star programme. It also retains a point on energy for disclosing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its own operations.
In contrast, Microsoft scored 3.3 out of 10 and Sony scored 4.9 out of 10.
Source: Kotaku
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