Sorry, but other cell phone companies have stopped using PVC for example "In a study of the iPhone, Greenpeace examined 18 components. "In addition to vinyl (PVC) plastic with phthalates, (which are used to turn polyvinyl choliride from a hard plastic into a flexible plastic), tests showed brominated compounds in half the samples.'The compounds comprised 10 percent of the total weight of the flexible circuit board in the iPhone. This is the third time that Greenpeace has tested an Apple product since 2006. Similar analyses of a MacBook Pro and an iPod Nano also revealed the presence of phthalates and BFRs," Greenpeace said. ' Rick Hind, a Greenpeace spokesman, said Apple could have made the iPhone without the controversial substances. "Apple missed a key opportunity when it rolled out the iPhone in June," Hind said in a statement on Greenpeace's Website. "There is no reason why the iPhone could not have been made without toxins like vinyl plastics and brominated flame retardants as Nokia is already doing.""
----- Original Message ---- From: Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 8:49:32 PM Subject: Re: Greenpeace Report On iPhone Toxins May Prompt Lawsuit - Hardware - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness Randall Shimizu wrote: > http://www.crn.com/hardware/202403043 What a waste of bandwidth. EVERY cell phone is going to have that stuff in it. Pretty much every electronic product will. -- Tracy R Reed Read my blog at http://ultraviolet.org Key fingerprint = D4A8 4860 535C ABF8 BA97 25A6 F4F2 1829 9615 02AD Non-GPG signed mail gets read only if I can find it among the spam. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
