In the chemical industry, metallurgy, leather and other industries to become commonplace when the releases of heavy metals, the IT industry, the heavy metal pollution in the past for a long period, once the man ignored.
Until recently, “Brand research 2010IT heavy metals supply chain”, and published well before the pollution of the IT industry heavy metal, lounging on public view.dell inspiron 1520 battery , This is the group of Friends of Nature and Environment Research Centre and other public utilities 34 environmental groups, surveys report last August.
The report shows that PCB manufacturers in the U.S. a company called Sharp Electronics Company in Huizhou, the local department of environmental protection of the business by monitoring wastewater acquisition has shown that DOC exceeded 96 , 9 times, 5199 times greater than copper and nickel exceeds 9.6 times the iron than 178.2 times. This is well known suppliers of IT brand.
Looks like the “appearance dressed” in the IT sector in the same morass of heavy metal pollution. Pollution “IT industry heavy metals are concentrated in the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta and other coastal areas, through the investigation revealed some industries concentrated area of heavy metal pollution is shocking. ” Ma Jun, director of public environmental research said.
For NGOs jointly published 34 research papers over the past 50 days, including Apple, including eight international IT brands have remained silent, and 21 other brands of IT is different answers. June 9, the reporter came to power Apple Beijing staff, for various reasons, refused to be interviewed.
In addition, the reporter learned from the stakeholders, the State Environmental Protection Department of Law Department is stepping up development of “Heavy Metal Act pollution prevention” to complete the relevant legislation.
8 IT brand has not yet responded to
June 5, published a second edition of the NGO IT industry heavy metal pollution research report, “Public concerns in public opinion under the IT respondents report the number of marks among the eight first, increased to 21 today. Dell Inspiron 1320 battery
The report will be the brands it in response to pollution by heavy metals is divided into the depth of response, limited response, the primary response, the response non-substantive, and refused to answer the five categories.
Who have the depth to satisfy Samsung, HP, Panasonic, Siemens and Toshiba, has refused to answer 8 for Apple, Philips, Ericsson, Vodafone, IBM, Canon, LG, and BYD.
IT for these brands, Ma Jun, said: “They deliberately avoid the question of NGOs, the desire to strengthen the management of the supply chain environment, resulting in higher costs, last September and a IT important brands to communicate, asking them to encourage suppliers to control emissions of heavy metals, the other replied: “too much trouble, because they have 5,000 manufacturers.”
Brand indulgence for many IT vendors environmental requirements, Ma actually sees an incentive to improve the environmental performance of suppliers to reduce costs and increase their orders.
The most typical is the response from Sony, Ma said: “Sony says its policy is to manage a supplier, but also make two suppliers, but because the supply chain is complex, with two suppliers who do not know. ”
And on the “mark heavy metals research 2010IT supply chain”, report the attitude of silence different 8 June 2010, Apple released an iPhone high level 4.
To this end, said Ma Jun, iPhone 4 in the U.S., but it is processed in China, production.sony vgp-bps9 , The processing industry as a global center of IT products, the ecological environment of China is paying the price, especially PCB and the power of the battery caused by the heavy metal pollution, the damage is particularly serious.
The IT industry has not been seriously heavy metals
Since early last year, Hunan and Gansu incident and heavy metal pollution has occurred, according to ministry statistics, last year alone, the department received a report of heavy metals, type of incident metal pollution, caused a blood lead level to 4035 people, 182 excessive cadmium, caused 32 cases of group incidents.
Department of Environmental Protection in April of this year conference call, the Environmental Protection Minister Zhou Shengxian said that the rehabilitation “of heavy metal pollution,” as the most important task in 2010.
Ma Jun, said: “Mine and many others involved in heavy metal emissions, the government began to pay attention, can not refer to the IT industry.”
Formed in the EICC standard electronics industry, is not perfect. Industry estimates that the industry standard related to the environment part of the very few, mainly on the work. It is understood that this standard is the survey of NGOs by the number of objects at the launch in 2004.
“The formation of national NGOs and public pressure, including the consumer wants to remove heavy metals, sony vgp-bps8 , will boost the fight against pollution by heavy metals and even eliminate the rhythm.” Ma Jun said.
He also said that the answer is important because understanding to resolve the first step, the answer is not enough of Dan, Zuizhongwomen hope that these timely and effective Shiba IT brand that excessive abuse of suppliers, Xitong find a solution that is most important.