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Electronics are Going Green, Part One
Going Green
Going Green: Electronics are Going Green, Part One
All the newest toys were on display at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and many of them are trying to become more eco-friendly, like this new green TV.
"The new Samsung Luxia line of LED backlit TVs are greener for two reasons. One, there is mercury in the traditional LCDs while there's no mercury in the LEDs which is more friendly to the environment. But I think the bigger story is a 40 percent reduction in power,” said Scott Cohen of Samsung Electronics.
Which translates into using a little over half the power you use now to operate the same size television set. And battery power is becoming more eco-friendly.
"Start with the packaging, over 80 percent made of recyclable material, very important the plastic that holds it in and the wrapper you can see the writing on is all PTE plastic instead of the rather toxic PVX that most everyone else uses. Recycled paper is used as an insulator. A very pure iron ingot that holds the silver dioxide (also very high grade), so the metal eventually rusts, lets out the inert material and all goes away," said Jeff Kreidenweis, of Fuji EnviroMax.
Long story short, a battery that can be thrown away with your regular garbage.
Another hot new item, a green power center for your workstation that cuts down on the power usage. It's a device that senses when your computer goes to sleep and turns off the other devices in use like printers, monitors and even the lights. It sounds like green is making progress in electronics.
"The electronics industry is greening but it's not green yet. We're no longer arguing over whether green progress needs to be made. We're talking about how fast it's made and to what depth," said Casey Harrell of Toxics Campaigner for Greenpeace International.
