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发帖数: 3492 | 1 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:15:57 PDT
Apple has notified the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (
EPEAT) that it is withdrawing its products from the EPEAT registry and will
no longer be submitting its products to EPEAT for environmental rating. CIO
Journal spoke with Robert Frisbee, CEO of EPEAT, who offered slightly more
color to the decision:
“They said their design direction was no longer consistent with the EPEAT
requirements,” Frisbee said. The company did not elaborate, Frisbee said.
“They were important supporters and we are disappointed that they don’t
want their products measured by this standard anymore.”
EPEAT certification requires certain standards that make the machines easy
to disassemble and recycle using common tools. Apple's recent Mac products
, such as the Retina MacBook Pro, are difficult to fully disassemble making
them ineligible for certification. iFixIt explains:
According to my EPEAT contacts, Apple’s mobile design direction is in
conflict with the intended direction of the standard. Specifically, the
standard lays out particular requirements for product “disassemble-ability,
” a very important consideration for recycling: “External enclosures,
chassis, and electronic subassemblies shall be removable with commonly
available tools or by hand.”
The move could have a financial impact on Apple's sales. CIO Reports that
many corporations require EPEAT certified computers. Meanwhile, the U.S.
government requires 95% of electronics purchases also be EPEAT certified.
The move does not seem to affect Apple's popular iPhone and iPad devices, as
they are presently a class of product not certified by EPEAT. |
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