Greenpeace flunks Mario and Yoshi again
Category: Industry, Posted: 03/20/2008 at 05:26PM CDT by Frank Ling, Editorial Director
Last year in November, Greenpeace issued their report card and graded the top manufacturers of mobile phones, TVs, and game consoles according to its standards regarding the problem of environmental waste and clean manufacturing procedures.
The latest Guide to Greener Electronics is out and Mario and Yoshi have flunked out again--big time.
Nintendo scored eight zeros across nine categories which had to do with issues such as the use of toxic chemicals and recycling, timelines for phasing out toxic chemicals, producer responsibility, voluntary takeback, the amounts recycled and other factors. All in all Nintendo scored a 0.3 out of a possible 10 points.
Greenpeace chided Mario and Friends by saying:
"Nintendo remains the odd one out of the 18 companies in the Guide, without any public timelines to eliminate the worst toxic chemicals or a global recycling policy for the millions of products it sells every year. If Nintendo has better policies why not make them public like the other 17 companies in the Guide?
"We have requested information from Nintendo head offices several times and sent it the ranking in advance but have received no response."
Microsoft fared a little bit better while Sony ranked fourth out of 18 companies that were evaluated.
"Among Nintendo's competitors, Microsoft [ranked sixteenth] improved its score to 4.7, mainly by bringing forwards its deadline to 2010 for eliminating toxic PVC and BFR's. Sony [ranked fourth] remains the leading console maker on 7.3, but it has yet to introduce any green innovation in the PlayStation."
In the long run, although Mario and Yoshi have scored a one legged "A" from Greenpeace, the fact that Nintendo is selling Wiis and DS game consoles like candy probably helps to take the edge off of any guilt they may feel about all of this.
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It's Japan... they kill dolphins. =O
I remember I saw two greenpeace workers in a park near the Sydney Central Trainstation, just walking along, I was about 15 feet behind them, and a homeless man was sitting on a park bench pulling his hair out, literally, they pointed and laughed at him. So yeah, f*ck greenpeace.
I concur, even when they don't abuse the homeless.
Nintendo got such bad scores because they don't make information about their environmental policies public.
I guess Greenpeace decided to punish them for not providing the information.
But really... it's just the way Nintendo works. They never release any information unless they have to.
Don't forget the shark fins Vincian
Boohoo...I'm so sad
shark fins are everywhere, I can buy them in Australia, in entire pieces, for soups. (And I do)
Another little known fact is that Nintendo uses child labor. And the ones who don't work fast enough to make the cut are publicly executed and sent to a slaughter house. There, they remove the blood (used in satanic rituals to sustain Mario's popularity.), Grind up the bone (used to make a glue like material. check the bottom of your wii's sensor.), process the fat (used to oil the machines.), but keep the skulls. They set those ablaze, and launch them out of cannons at passing green peace ships. That's why green peace is hatin' on them.
This GREENpeace electronics report card is an insidious attempt for that wack job organization to try and make its self relevant to the gaming community. If GREENpeace is truly wishing for consumers not to buy Nintendo, just start a marketing campaign that promises console technology five years out of date and no quality third party support forever. Wait, didn't Nintendo already pretty much do that? Right...
So wait, Nintendo won't release their environmental info, yet Greenpeace sees it fit to fail them on it?
Woah, nintnedo has thirsd party support, and a lot of it. Idk, i still think the wii is a good step up from the cube. graphics arent everything.
Wii has SSBB. They can be eating babies for all I care. It's effing SSBB.