Greenpeace: greener electronics.

Each year hundreds of thousands of old computers and mobile phones are dumped in landfills or incinerators. Thousands of electronic waste produced in the Europe, US, Japan and other industrialised countries are also exported, often illegally, to Asia and Africa, where (even very young) workers touch with bare hands waste, exposing themselves to a cocktail of toxic compounds and poisons. 

If the producers don't engage in an appropriate manner, the current rate of growth of technological waste will create a crisis of major proportions. It is possible to make products which are durable, which can be improved, free from dangerous substances and that can be recycled or dumped in fairness, so as to grant a life-ending to the products without endangering anyone, even the poorest people. 

From years, Greenpeace has been pressing hi-tech companies to make their production more sustainable thanks to a periodic publication of the Eco-guide to the "green" electronic products. 
In 2009, Greenpeace launched a new campaign to force hi-tech companies to look for technological solutions to fight against climate changes. They have been asked to reduce their ecological footprint and to politically commit to climate action. 
Greenpeace asks them to develop a business model which helps the world to get to real emissions reduction. A victory for this sector, which will become the pioneer of a global changing towards a clean energy economy. 

On November 2012, the guide to Greener Electronics is headed by Wipro, an Indian electronics company (7,1/10), followed by HP (5,7/10), Nokia (5,4/10), Acer (5,1/10), Dell (4,6/10), Apple (4,5/10), Samsung (4,2/10), Sony (4,1/10), Lenovo (3,9/10), Philips (3,8/10) and Panasonic (3,6/10). The absolutely worst ones are LGE (3,5/10), HCL Infosystems (3,1/10), Sharp (3,1/10), Toshiba (2,3/10) and RIM (2,0/10).