01-07-2009 Greenpeace: HP, Lenovo and Dell penalised for breaking their green IT promises

Excerpt from the Greenpeace website:

We're giving HP, Lenovo and Dell--the world's biggest PC makers--a penalty point in our updated Guide to Greener Electronics, for backtracking on their commitments to eliminate PVC plastic and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from their products by the end of 2009.

Staff at HP's Dutch headquarters were greeted on arrival by Greenpeace activists confronting them with pictures of the pollution HP's toxic products cause in Asia and Africa. The PC giant has already received a public reminder of the need to reprioritise toxic chemical phase out, when activists returned 'toxic laptops' to the company's Chinese headquarters on July 1.