Greenpeace praised in two new Acer notebook products using environmentally friendly designs
Acer Friday launched two models of notebook product using environmentally-friendly design, Acer Aspire 3811TZ and the Aspire 3811TZG Green peace organization’s high praise . The two products with a high energy efficiency, recyclable materials, environmental design concepts such as biodegradable. Acer also claims that these two models used PVC/BFRs materials design.
Cheap PVC material is a, good durability of plastic material, Greenpeace means that material not biodegradable, to harmful atmospheric emissions and waste. Additives and BFR material is a plastic material, the main effect of the additive is to enhance the fire protection capacity of plastic materials, but the material equally harmful to the environment, but will also have an impact on physical health of infants and young children. In these two models of Acer, except the power cord, other parts are made of is non-toxic materials.
Acer declared: “PVC/BFR material scrap is generated when the second oxygen glutinous rehmannia, furans and other hazardous wastes, and Acer’s products are now available to avoid pollution of our planet suffer from such wastes. ”
In addition, the notebook also uses energy-efficient design, than traditional notebooks reduce its electricity consumption of about 40%, battery life up to 8 hours. In addition, the notebook designed with both easier to recycle and notebook parts than traditional laptop a split within the finer, the user can replace the damaged parts in time, further extend the durability of the notebook.
Both membership Acer Timeline notebook product lines, products based on Intel’s CULV slim design, based on the Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processor, the CULV notebooks in slim extent can compete with netbooks, and performance and battery life is better than a NetBook.
2005 Acer who have boasted about what one can do said 2009 will fully achieve products design PVC/BFR-free but they obviously failed in this task time. So although the Greenpeace laudable attitude to Acer two new products, but they are still only in the eco-points standings released on 7th gave Acer 4.5 (out of 10). Acer in reducing harmful substance of their computer/display products gaining a + rating, and recyclable properties of its product, and harmful cleaning up score is very low.
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Original:CNET