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Congratulations!

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 environ-

ment and also, to the further development of environmentally adapted electron-

ics products.

Why do we have environmentally labelled computers?

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 the manufacturing. Since it has not been possible for the majority of

electronics equipment to be recycled in a satisfactory way, most of these poten-

tially 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 conventional electricity

generation have a negative effect on the environment (acidic and climate-influ-

encing emissions, radioactive waste, etc.), it is vital to conserve energy. Elec-

tronics equipment in offices consume an enormous amount of energy since they

are often left running continuously.

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