People willing to pay for greener PCs

UK consumers would pay up to £64 more for an environmentally friendly PC according to a Greenpeace survey.

Ipsos-Mori, on behalf of the environmental group, interviewed 9,000 people in nine countries, including the UK, Germany, China and India for the survey.

China’s consumers proved the most generous, saying they would pay up £108 more for a greener PC. Overall, the research also found people believed that manufacturers should take more responsibility for recycling old PCs.

Greenpeace hailed Dell for announcing plans to eliminate the use of all brominated flame retardants and polyvinyl chloride in its products by 2009.

Other firms like Hewlett Packard, Nokia and Samsung have already announced plans to gradually remove harmful chemicals from products in the coming years. Acer has said it will stop using harmful toxins in products later this year.

Companies who refused to comment on their plans include Toshiba, Lenovo, IBM Apple and others. More  

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