Greening my Apples
Monday, June 28, 2010
I have one and I'm sure you have/had one. We've bitched about them when they break and we openly confess our love for their user friendliness and sleek stylish design. They make our beats, they tweak our colours, they give life to our 2-dimensional drawings. Getting the first one is like internal combustion to the senses and having to replace/repair one is a downer no one ever likes to talk about.
No Standing works with a lot of companies who swear by them and No Standing itself has the bug deeply ingrained into it's flesh.
Whether it's an iBook, Powerbook, iPhone, iPod what ever, owning an Apple is like your first kiss ever time you hit the power button and colour starts to dance majestically across the screen, revealing your own little utopia.
The only problem is once they break their nearly impossible to fix. With every new machine comes newly designed parts that just won't fit into any newer model.
This provides a massive problem globally and the waves of electronic waste (e-waste) are washing toxins through the water ways and by-ways, from the sun kissed top-less wonders of Brazil to the brandy-canoodled top-end heavy rockers of Bellville.
Responsible disposal of waste should be on the heads of the producers of the products we buy and the habits we feed. Imagine being able to walk into Pick n Pay with a black bag of packaging and saying;"here we go, that's yours, have a great day!".
It's not likely to happen any day soon, that's why No Standing is here.
But the point I'm trying to get at, if I haven't made myself crystal, is that as consumers we have a responsibility to ensure the waste packaging from the products we buy end up in a place where it can't be blow into the sea, get eaten by a Pelican and cause a slow and indigestible death.
I came across this interesting link by Greenpeace about a few of Apples returnable policies.
