Environmentalists Strike Back Against Apple

Why can't these environmentalists focus on getting the customers to recycle their ipods once they die? It sounds like Apple is doing all that they can and don't need this tras being thrown at them. Leave Apple alone, focus on the customers, they're clearly the bigger problem.

Steve Jobs is a former hippie. I am sure he takes being called anti enviomental very personally. The man is Vegan for Pete's sake. These dorks give real enviromentallists a bad name. The Clear Skies proposal, the Enron Freindly energy bill that just passed are a much more deserving target for protest by enviromentalists than Apple. But don't listen to me I was only raised by an enviomental chemist.

I've thown out three HP PCs in my life... and owned 7 macs... each I've preserved and use as cool (although highly impractacle) foot-rests. My point; maybe Mac users don't throw the old stuff out - we stockpile the stuff. Maybe not. :D

i agreee the industry i too blame, as are consumers to a point. consumables must be be made with recycling in mind. there area just too many land fill's already.

the leader of this group said they "picked the iPod to go after because its the hippest thing around. Well duh, how else do environmentalists ever get attention. There is such a buzz around iPod that any sentence that starts or ends with it is great headline material. I wonder if any in the group have used or use an iPod. Won't that be something?!

1500 tons = 70 000 macs (metric tons anyway) So this is a really small percentage of Mac sold. Computer waste is a real problem, we must do something about it. I do not agree with the tactics of blaming the iPod because it is hip. Blame the whole industry!

And don't forget EVERYONE wants to throw away there old PCs for brand new Apples. So obviously they'll have more to recycle - nobody wants them. But noone would be caught recycling their Mac. Its unheard of. (Unless they're the people recycling those 1500 tons for new Macs.)

HP has recycled 5000 tons? Okaay, um, HP probably has hundreds of thousands more PCs and computer hardware than Apple does. Scale that down to Apple's 5% market share, and Apple's recycling program is doing pretty good.