Consumers Want, and Are Skeptical About, Eco-Electronics – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com
By JOE HUTSKO
Among other findings from a survey released today by the Consumer Electronics Association, an industry group representing computer and gadget manufacturers, 89 percent of consumers said that energy efficiency would be a factor in choosing their next television — even as less than half of the 960 people surveyed said they’re generally able to make sense of the environmental attributes attached to electronics on the market.
Read the full story here: Consumers Want, and Are Skeptical About, Eco-Electronics – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com.
For the 83 per cent of the population that wants to know more about the environmental reputations of the many consumer electronics companies out there, here’s a good place to start:
http://vanno.com/welcome/Eco-Electronics
It seems that it may be a consideration to have manufactureres of products that impact negatively to the environment to either take them back and properly dispose of them at the end of their usefull life or add a small fee to the product to produce a central disposal site that items can be sent to for proper dismantling and disposal at end of it’s life cycle.