Apple, Blackberry, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Motorola, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba and other consumer electronics companies can be less unsustainable than their competitors and less unsustainable tomorrow than they are today. However, given:
- The state of the art in manufacturing,
- Electronics are made with designs that are supplanted before they wear out, and
- Recycling consumer electronics is expensive and releases toxins,
the consumer electronics industry can not, almost by definition, be “Sustainable.” For what they need to do, click beneath the fold.