“That certainly wasn’t the case when Greenpeace blew out its nearly identical “greener guide” metrics last year and the year prior, both of which spent all their focus on whether or not staffers could google together commitments to stop using specific chemicals or to advertise takeback goals. Greenpeace ranked Apple poorly for not advertising what it had already done, and congratulated HP and Dell for promising to do those things in the future, even while those companies were putting out more toxins per computer, shipping out far more instant eWaste PCs with shorter usable lifespans, and recycling less of its own products. It then turned out that HP wasn’t even living up to its vaunted commitments.

The Greenpeace Greener Guide was a complete joke. Rather than providing useful information to help consumers, it served up misinformation assembled by corporations that were shoveling money at Greenpeace. Further, the report’s attack on Apple was based on false premises and statistics invented with poor methodology.”