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After gaining some traction by calling Nintendo out a couple weeks ago for being a massive environmental offender, eco-terrorist environmentally conscious group Greenpeace is calling for reforms across the game industry. Greenpeace says that console manufacturers are “lagging way behind” mobile phone and PC makers in reducing their “toxic load” in the last year. They say that game consoles have many of the same parts as PCs, so the manufacturers can do “a lot more.”
The console manufacturers have yet to respond to the Greenpeace allegations. The campaign gives a list of toxic materials used in manufacturing and introduces really peripheral things like Chinese and Indian workers in production facilities are at risk of exposure to chemicals. Greenpeace has created a 90-second video aimed at gamers in which iconic characters from the major consoles compete for greener consoles. When we see this thing and get an embeddable version we’ll place it after the break.
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