Despite whether you love or loath Greenpeace, they have recently released the updated “Guide to Greener Electronics,” and it’s pretty cool to look over. I’ll spare you the suspense: Nokia scored the best, and Nintendo scored the worst. If you’re considering an electronics purchase, this information is certainly something to consider!

Greenpeace’s guide began in August 2006 as a way to rank the top 17 manufacturers of computers, phones, televisions, and game consoles based on their corporate policies regarding recycling, toxic chemicals, and climate change. The guide has been updated every three months since the first release.

Here is an excerpt from Greenpeace that describes the ranking criteria:

The ranking criteria reflect the demands of the Toxic Tech campaign to the electronics companies. Our three demands are that companies should:

• Clean up their products by eliminating hazardous substances.

• Takeback and recycle their products responsibly once they become obsolete.
• Reduce the climate impacts of their operations and products.
  

The use of harmful chemicals in electronics prevents their safe recycling when the products are discarded. Companies scored marks out of 51 this has then been calculated to a mark out of 10 for simplicity.

Follow the more link beside each company for the full details of their score. The full criteria for scoring the companies is available. Download the full pdf of the scorecard.

Each score is based solely on public information on the companies website. Companies found not to be following their published policies will be deducted penalty point in future versions of the guide.

More in-depth descriptions of each company rated is available on the guide’s webpage.