"Apple Has Made No Progress at All" on Environment
In January, a group of Chinese environmental NGOs including Friends of Nature and IPE ranked Apple last out of 29 tech companies in terms of environmental transparency. While the company’s own audits have revealed a number of problems such as suppliers’ employment of underage workers, its ...
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Apple, as the company responsible for all environmental issues of all of China, must clean up all of China. The Chinese government does not have any responsibility at all. Chinese people must blame Apple for all China’s environmental problems.
There’s plenty of blame to go round: see our archives.
There’s really no reason for Apple, or other OEMs, to push their suppliers to make this kind of progress.
1) They’re in China because the government has very lax environmental regulations and barely enforces the regulations they do have.
2) It would cut into the profit margin’s of everyone involved.
3) People in the West and in China continue to buy their products regardless of how much toxic materials/chemicals they contain (or are used during their manufacture).
Bullshit. Any company with a progressive stance will take action to make their suppliers take responsibility.
There are plenty of good examples to go around, like IKEA or H&M. They manage both profits and, to more extent than their competitors, also strive towards sustainability.
This is an alliance between the Chinese government and Apple. As CDT reported before, the government has FORBIDDEN newspapers to write about suicides at Apple’s (foxcon) factories. When Chinese people gain the power to decide their future for themselves, I hope they will hold companies like Apple responsible.