Lenovo T560 Manual page 38

Environmental Labelling of Personal Computers
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
In many countries, environmental labelling has become an established method for
encouraging the adaptation of goods and services to the environment. The main
environmentally
problem, as far as computers and other electronics equipment are concerned, is that
labelled computers?
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.
What does labelling
This product meets the requirements for the TCO'99 scheme which provides for
international and environmental labelling of personal computers. The labelling
involve?
scheme was developed as a joint effort by the TCO (The Swedish Confederation of
Professional Employees), Svenska Naturskyddsforeningen (The Swedish Society for
Nature Conservation) and Statens Energimyndighet (The Swedish National Energy
Administration).