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I’m not a huge trend follower. When it comes to how I spend my money, for clothes or tech gear, I look for function over form. But even I have my weaknesses and a few years ago I wanted to be one of those hip, beautiful people I saw plastered on city streets and on television ads and in order to do that I needed to have an ipod, so I got one. Now comes the iphone, and my oh so stylish and computer savvy friends swear by their Apple computers. A recent article posted on AlterNet questions the environmental policies of the mega tech company.

In December of 2006, Greenpeace released a report ranking the overall environmental policy of major technology companies. Dell was at the top but Apple found itself at the bottom. While top companies like Dell and Nokia have made great strides to eliminate the most toxic chemicals from their products and offer strong recycling programs, Apple has not.

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