iPhone! It’s Toxic!
iPhone! It’s Toxic!

Another one gunning at Apple Inc.! This time, surprisingly or not, it is the popular environmental organization Greenpeace that is shooting towards Apple Inc.’s once famous ultimate gadget, the iPhone. After Greenpeace’s hit report, it now seems that the iPhone is not only a controversial phone because of all those technique issues related to the network, third-party applications, locking and unlocking software programs and so on; according to Greenpeace the iPhone is also somehow toxic!

The worldwide popular environmental organization has said that they have discovered after the first ever iPhone-dissection that the ultimate smart phone is in fact full of hazardous chemicals. Greenpeace has disassembled the mobile phone and they have said two types of hazardous substances have been discovered. Some of these substances have been already “eliminated by other mobile phone makers”.

According to the environmental group’s analysis, the iPhone contains toxic brominated compounds and hazardous PVC. The presence of these two substances has been confirmed also by an independent scientific laboratory that has tested 18 components of the iPhone. These toxic substances’ influence could cause a wide range of important health problems to the phone’s users.

Greenpeace has also compared Apple’s smart phone the other manufacturers’ similar devices. The popular Nokia phones are already PVC free, while Sony Ericsson and Motorola new phones are also healthier than the iPhone.

As a conclusion of the report, Greenpeace is already calling on Apple Inc. to initiate a global take-back policy on its once called “ultimate gadget”.




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