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You have just purchased a TCO’99 approved and labelled product! Your choice
has provided you with a product developed for professional use. Your purchase
has also contributed to reducing the burden on the environment and also to the
further development of environmentally adapted electronics products.
In many countries, environmental labelling has become an established method
for encouraging the adaptation of goods and services to the environment. The
main problem, as far as computers and other electronics equipment are
concerned, is that environmentally harmful substances are used both in the
products and during their manufacture. Since it is not so far possible to
satisfactorily recycle the majority of electronics equipment, most of these
potentially damaging substances sooner or later enter nature.
There are also other characteristics of a computer, such as energy
consumption levels, that are important from the viewpoints of both the work
(internal) and natural (external) environments. Since all methods of
electricity generation have a negative effect on the environment (e.g. acidic
and climate-influencing emissions, radioactive waste), it is vital to save
energy. Electronics equipment in offices is often left running continuously and
thereby consumes a lot of energy.
This product meets the requirements for the TCO’99 scheme which provides
for international and environmental labelling of personal computers. The
labelling scheme was developed as a joint effort by the TCO (The Swedish
Confederation of Professional Employees), Svenska Naturskyddsforeningen
(The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation) and Statens Energimyndighet
(The Swedish National Energy Administration).
Environmental Labelling of Personal Computers
Congratulations!
Why do we have
environmentally
labelled computers?
What does labelling
involve?
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