Folks at the Greenpeace have been trying very hard to convince the electronic companies to get rid of toxic chemicals while producing the electronic items. They have been encouraging these companies to make products, which are free of the worst hazardous substances. At the CES 2010, Greenpeace has just released their latest edition of the Guide to Greener Electronics, which showed Apple, Sony Ericsson and Nokia as the leading examples of producing chemical free gadgets.

The latest company to join them is HP, which was targeted big time by Greenpeace in 2009 for failing to adhere to the norms of producing chemical free products. The good news is HP has come up with the industry’s first Microsoft Windows based desktop to be free of brominated flame retardants and polyvinyl chloride right from the wall to the mouse itself. This is such a welcome change. On the other hand, Samsung still fails to stick by the rules proposed by Greenpeace.

Apparently, Samsung has imposed January 2011 as the deadline for producing toxic free new models of notebooks and. At present they only have their latest mobile phones as the examples of toxic free products. Interestingly, they haven’t cited any definite deadline of producing toxic free TVs and other household items. I wonder why Samsung is playing such a spoilsport by defying the good rules.

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