It is slowly turned on: Apple and HP giving more details, its suppliers, and its environmental characteristics of products. Others to look out for this is not yet the information as a trade secret.
It industry in recent years has become more transparent-this is the most recent results. Apple and HP now betray the contract manufacturers for their production. Dell's prize, after all, his vendor's name. Not revealing the Asian manufacturers have even DAS.
Called HP the first It company names of the hundreds of metal melt in their supply chain. So you can, for example to find out a few seconds of HP products insert fields from a Bangga, Pulau (Indonesia). Other manufacturers said environmentalists back several months-long campaign.
Ever-increasing pressure by non-governmental organizations and the media seems to be the main cause of increased transparency. At the same time, manufacturers attempt to publicize its new openness: Each presents itself as a particularly socially and environmentally friendly in Dar es Salaam. Who is right but everybody is guessing. To this end, manufacturers would have to disclose more data, and to use a common standard.
Is clearly environmental conditions: Apple releases on its Web site that only manufacturers CO2 footprint of each product. So you can see for example air CO 2caused iPad iPad 2 just before 180 kg 105 kg. Calculation method remains unclear. In addition, Samsung, Lenovo and company there are so many products and product variants, they probably are not disclosed as detailed ecological information to Apple.
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