Apple Responds to Criticism Over EPEAT Withdrawal

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Posted July 11, 2012 at 3:59am by Shalom Levytam

Apple has responded to criticism of its decision to withdraw from the U.S. government backed registration of environmentally friendly electronics, known as EPEAT.

The company submitted the following statement to The Loop.

"Apple takes a comprehensive approach to measuring our environmental impact and all of our products meet the strictest energy efficiency standards backed by the US government, Energy Star 5.2," Apple representative Kristin Huguet, told The Loop. "We also lead the industry by reporting each product's greenhouse gas emissions on our website, and Apple products are superior in other important environmental areas not measured by EPEAT, such as removal of toxic materials."

Earlier today it was reported that San Francisco plans to block purchases of Apple desktops and laptops by municipal agencies following the decision to drop EPEAT.

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justabrake - July 11, 2012 at 5:24pm

Got the last of the 17" macbook pros with 2.4 Ghz 16GB memory SSD Don't need no retina this thing flys @ 18 seconds bootup time, All the pro retinas to me are like EMACHINES

qw1987 - July 11, 2012 at 5:17pm

These standards are all about making money by extorting companies to get your certification (which usually cost BIG BUCKS). A little inside help from the government and, bingo, you have a multimillion dollar scam.

Sharpshooter - July 11, 2012 at 4:21pm

New macbooks are so not user friendly that if your battery stops working you might need to pay apple to replace it, no more going to the store and buy a new one or one with a higher capacity. So you get what you pay and if you need an upgrade it'll cost you a new machine. Im not sure about the hard drives but thats probably solder to the mainboard as well. So new macbook: No upgradable RAM No exchangable or replacable battery

Vang - July 11, 2012 at 3:17pm

Who cares. Bring on the next model.

justabrake - July 11, 2012 at 6:51am

These new macbooks are built more like emachines and that means cheap and throw aways if something happens to them ! Prices for upgrades are ridicules,

Tario - July 11, 2012 at 5:27am

Except EPEAT is more about the ability to disassemble a PC/Laptop, repair it, & upgrade it. It basically has to do more with the flexibility to take care of your own property without having to take it in for repairs and/or flat out replace the thing. With the new Macbook Pros, an upgrade of RAM would require purchasing an entirely new laptop since the RAM is soldered into place. Just bad design in my opinion. Also, standards are there to be a baseline, a minimum to be reached. If a company can exceed them why would they pull out of the standard? Oh yea, there would be no need to! But of course it must be that standard that is bad & not the fact that a company that used to submit their products for review of that standard no longer does.

no_ma'am - July 11, 2012 at 10:08am

If this is true what you say, than I have a completely new perspective on this topic. I will do some research for myself but this is very sad to hear that about apple.

vix - July 11, 2012 at 3:05pm

for many many years apple was know as the WORST for environment. They were consider one of the worst env. companies touted by greenpeace. So I am not surprised if Apple bullies there way through

vix - July 11, 2012 at 11:17pm

@rat, mind your manners. here is a link.. this is for this year.. apple worked to move up because of the pressure, and still not a great position for being slick and simple. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/cool-it/Campaign-analysis/Guide-to-Greener-Electronics/ google it rat!

qw1987 - July 11, 2012 at 11:51pm

@vix: Greenpeace is not exactly a news organization. In fact, it has been repeatedly demonstrated that Greenpeace is simply unadulterated BS. Please cite some actual facts.

Future - July 12, 2012 at 2:22pm

F you Russel.