Why Do We Have Environmentally Labelled Computers - NEC MultiSync FE700+ User Manual

TCO'99
Congratulations!
You have just purchased a TCO'99 approved
and labelled product! Your choice has
provided you with a product developed for
professional use. Your purchase has also
contributed to reducing the burden on the
environment and also to the further
development of environmentally adapted
electronics products.
Why do we have environmentally labelled
computers?
In many countries, environmental labelling has become an established
method for encouraging the adaptation of goods and services to the
environment. The main problem, as far as computers and other
electronics equipment are concerned, is that environmentally harmful
substances are used both in the products and during their manufacture.
Since it is not so far possible to satisfactorily recycle the majority of
electronics equipment, most of these potentially damaging substances
sooner or later enter nature.
There are also other characteristics of a computer, such as energy
consumption levels, that are important from the viewpoints of both the
work (internal) and natural (external) environments. Since all methods of
electricity generation have a negative effect on the environment (e.g.
acidic and climate-influencing emissions, radioactive waste), it is vital to
save energy. Electronics equipment in offices is often left running
continuously and thereby consumes a lot of energy.
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