Apple & environmental issues

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Apple to respond to the following items:

- Gore needs a greener Apple, Marc Gunther, Fortune, April 3, 2007
- Coalition Presses Al Gore To Support Green Policies at Apple, Computer Take Back Campaign, March 22, 2007
- Apple Computers: Fun for You, Toxic for the Environment, Jess Hemerly, AlterNet, January 30, 2007
- Greenpeace targets 'toxic' Apple, Martin Veitch, IT Week Green Business News, January 10, 2007

In response Apple provided:

• a statement responding to these concerns [DOC]
• links to:
  - the company's "Apple and the Environment" website
  - a summary of Apple's recycling programmes in the US & Canada
  - Apple's proxy statement [PDF] including two shareholder proposals on an Environmental Report, and on Electronic Waste Take Back & Recycling, and the board's statement in opposition to these proposals [see proposals 8 & 10, beginning on pp. 42 & 46]

See also:

There Goes Greenpeace Again....., Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek online, 3 Apr 2007 [critique of Greenpeace's ratings of computer manufacturers on environmental issues]