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Thursday, January 20, 2011 21:25 pm
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Waste electronics devices generally do not contain ingredients from environmentally friendly packaging materials, components, until the activity during production. Plastic material used as a casing or wrapper may contain hazardous materials and toxic elements.
So far, consumers are encouraged to avoid as much as possible direct secondhand electronic goods discarded into the environment because of the content of these materials. It was probably part of prevention in the downstream. In fact, efforts to anticipate the hazardous waste from electronic goods would be far more effective if prevention in the upstream can be done.
Almost all electronics companies are now inspired to make their products more environmentally friendly. But, of course not all have the same acceleration to achieve appropriate komitemennya. In the computer industry, Taiwan's Asus is probably one of the companies that successfully transform their products into more environmentally friendly.
"Being our responsibility to reduce carbon emissions and supervise the whole cycle of our products. In addition to adding energy-saving technologies like the ASUS exclusive Super Hybrid Engine to the notebook, and designs Digital VRM on the motherboard, ASUS has sought a maximum of more environmentally friendly start of the process design in research and development, procurement, production and marketing, "says Asus chairman Jonney Shih in a statement recently.
The commitment is indeed bearing fruit. Two of its products into the most green product line based on the Greenpeace Electronics Survey 2010 which was published in the International Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas, some time ago. Each ASUS VW247 LCD monitors and notebook UL30-HF Green was selected as the best in Electronic Product Consumer Market 2010.
Greenpeace Electronics Survey is conducted annually to assess electronic products in four categories, the use of chemicals, energy consumption, technical life products, and other important features. VW247 LCD Monitor-HF to obtain high scores for each category, with the overall value of 7.5 (out of 10), far above the other survey participants.
ASUS UL30 also noted as the most environmentally friendly consumer notebooks available today. Verification is based on the PAS 2050:2008 and ISO 14067-1 (CD): 2010 and PCR for notebook computers (PCR 2008:1) given to the identification of greenhouse gas emissions in the product life cycle, monitoring and reporting consistent calculation.
Last year, the company also received the Carbon Foot Print Certificate world's first for notebooks. Recently, environmentally friendly notebook ASUS Bamboo U53JC using bamboo material has also received certification Carbon Foot Print of the world's second for notebooks. Asus also became the first company to bring the halogen-free motherboard and the monitor to the market. EPEAT Gold certification, the EU Flower and Energy Saving Star has received the company.
Electronics firm commitment to continue to implement environmentally sound production must be encouraged. If all manufacturers are competing to make their products makiin friendly, of hazardous waste in the future can be prevented.
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