Greenpeace: addressing user comments

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Greenpeace: addressing user comments

Postby sharkh20 » 13 Dec 2007 14:46

"To address a few comments above.

Our Guide is produced to push companies to be more progressive and more transparent about how they are eliminating toxic chemicals and improving recycling. If any company was not included because they did not want to then undoubtedly any company who doesn't want public scrutiny of its environmental record could avoid it by not responding. By putting the onus on the companies to prove what they are doing publicly this creates competition to improve and be more transparent about environmental policies and practice. That's what we do - drive positive environmental change.

On energy Nintendo's low use is highlighted as positive on our new site comparing the Wii to the Xbox 360 and PS3.

On recycling - if Nintendo did recycle its old products it could save on resources and raw materials like Sony does - reusing the metals rather than using newly mined ones.

Tom
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Please tell me, how do you recycle your own product if you do not own it anymore because it is sold to a customer? I still have all my systems and use them. They don't have some ten year policy that you must return the system back to Nintendo within that alloted time period so that they can recycle it. Would you like Nintendo to go into people's homes and take their products back? That, my friends, is called stealing and is generally frowned upon in most civilizations.
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Postby cortjezter » 13 Dec 2007 16:49

i'm not sure what the above argument is, but it sounds absurdly illogical to me.

several tech companies offer a service whereby you can return old/used/etc electronics for recycling, refurbishing, reusing, etc. sony and apple are two examples i have seen programs for.

some other companies have programs to take and recycle the electronics for a small fee, which seems a completely reasonable alternative to paying a garbage company to haul them to a landfill and pollute.

i think the point here wasn't just that nintendo doesn't have a fancy collection program of some sort, it's that they don't offer consumers any means to return their used goods to be recycled.

it's not about a warranty period or anything like that. it's for collecting electronics when the consumer is done with them, either because they no longer work, don't want them around etc. so it doesn't really matter how old they are, how many owners they've had, or any of that. when they're no longer wanted or needed, greenpeace suggests having some means to collect those items to be reused.
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Postby sharkh20 » 13 Dec 2007 16:59

That is not the job of the company though. It is the job of the person who purchased the product. The old systems probably cannot even be used into making new Nintendo products. There are plenty of places to take my old consoles to get them recycled if I wanted to. But the thought of nintendo creating a place in every town or city for me to take my old nintendo to get recycled is insane. For one, hardly anyone in the US would even take advantage of it. Setting up that kind of program would probably use more materials than the outcome of recycling anyway. It is just stupid.
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