MacExpo Photo Gallery and Greenpeace goes after Apple's iWaste

Way to jump to conclusions again.

P.S. Sorry about the appalling typos in my post, above. It's hard to type properly with Account Managers and Designers clawing at you, asking silly questions.

I'm an IT manager for small but well known company.. we have over 100 machines and now then we have batches of equipment to dispose of. I saw Greenpeace's campaign at just the time I had literally a truckload of equipment to dispose of - I went to their site and there was not a shred of info about how I could 'greenly' dispose of my company's surplus equipment. I'd been right on their side until I realised they're just whingeing on about what other people are doing, but not offering any solution whatsoever.

In the end I got my company registered with the government and we did it all properly, but I came away feeling nothing but frustration with Greenpeace and speaking to their representatives outside MacExpo yesterday simply re-inforced my newly adjusted views of Greenpeaced. One of the girls attempted to sound balanced but the other just spouted off that about how they're not getting involved, because they want to force Apple to deal with the issue... What The Fuh!

All I can say to Greenpeace, is..

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."

I applaud TUAW for not giving Apple a free pass on this issue. It's sad to see so many zealots who can't even reason when criticism is applied to a company whose products they like. What's especially amazing is that Greenpeace has taken such a soft approach on a really important issue. I think the whole "I love my Mac, but..." thing is really interesting because it's really quite sympathetic to those of us who love Macs.

Jarland - Why not cite your sources if you're so sure of yourself. Also, if you think a little cardboard and shrinkwrap is the same level of environmental polution as the heavy metals and whatnot that go into producing modern electronics, well... you're just wrong.

Daniel - :)

Sam - What's your point? Al Gore uses Macs therefore Apple's environmental policy is okay after all? You noticed some apparent hypocrisy on the part of Al Gore so therefore the entire concept of environmentalism is hogwash?

Well, I was there yesterday covering the event for MyMac.com, and they were still in place around 2pm - I guess it happened later on.

I did discuss it with them, and they claimed that they were targeting Apple because of the company's "progressive and innovative approach" to the industry i.e. they felt that Apple would be more ready to respond to them.

Guess they were right - looks like Apple responded pretty smartly! Of course, the more cynical of us might think they were targeting Apple because it is easy to get media coverage with an "Apple is bad" message.

Certainly, persuading Dell to change their manufacturing would prevent far more computers leaking toxics into asian landfills, as they make so many more of them than Apple.

While shutting down a Greenpeace booth would probably make MacExpo and even Apple look bad, at least attendees won't have to go through this on large plasma screens (if any of them are environmentally friendly enough for them): http://www.greenpeace.org/apple/ads

Stupid hippies make me sick.

I recently went and saw "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore (It was good for a laugh, but that's beside the point).

The whole thing was funny, not in that it might have just been a really long Mac commercial, but that the green-crusader Al Gore uses the most environmentally unfriendly laptops on the market (not to mention his private jets and big cars - he only expect other people to change their lives).

people throw their apple products away? *plays with puck mouse*

I love my Mac. Thank the Gods it doesn't come in green!