The application aims to let consumers quickly compare household paper brands while in the grocery store.
(Credit: Greenpeace)A few years ago, Greenpeace singled out Apple when assessing companies for toxic waste. The clash now seems to be in the past, as Greenpeace has started using Apple's iPhone to spread its message on the importance of selecting the right toilet paper.
Greenpeace has launched an iPhone application version of its "Recycled Tissue and Toilet Paper Guide" that lets consumers compare brands available at their local grocery store to find which brands are most environmentally sustainable.
The app, developed by 3rdWhale, gives advice on a scale from "Recommended," "Avoid," or "They Can Do Better" on brands of facial tissues, toilet paper, paper towels, and paper napkins.
The ranking is based on percentage of recycled content, the percentage of post-consumer content, and the bleaching method used.
The application is available for download for the iPhone and Google Android. A WAP version can be found here.
After the Greenpeace debate, Apple started what it called "a Greener Apple campaign" to Greenpeace cheers, and it seems to have had an effect.
In Greenpeace's latest rankings, Apple scored 4.7 out of 10--"Up four places, good on chemicals elimination, improved on recycling but still poor on energy."
It should be interesting to see if the toilet paper guide prolongs the green peace.
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If you're trying to impress people with your carbon footprint, you may not want to flaunt your phone unless it's made by Sony or Sony Ericsson. Those are the only electronics makers that scored above 5/10 in the latest edition of Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics.
The organization tried to explain why the 18 companies that were assessed seemed to rank so low on its scale (PDF). "Electronics giants pay attention to environmental performance on certain issues, while ignoring others that are just as important. Philips, for example, scores well on chemicals and energy criteria, but scores a zero on e-waste since it has no global take-back polices," said Iza Kruszewska, Greenpeace International's toxics campaigner.
Sony Ericsson got high marks in the chemicals category, attributable in no small part to its ban on PVC beginning with this year's products, according to Slashphone. If you do carry a different brand, you might at least be able to disguise it with a case made from recycled tires.
While this Spencer Tunick photo from the I-20 gallery looks like a glacier, Tunick's glacier shoot will take place next month.
(Credit: I-20 Gallery)How many naked people can you fit on a shrinking glacier? According to a report by Reuters, New York photographer Spencer Tunick plans to find out next month when he teams up with Greenpeace to shoot another in his long series of nude photos of large groups of people. Tunick will hold his shoot on a Swiss glacier the weekend of August 18 and is seeking volunteers for the Greenpeace shoot. The Reuters report says that volunteers can register at www.greenpeace.ch/tunickglacier, but when I checked it, that was a dead link. If you want to offer up your body for any of Tunick's future projects, you can do so at his Web site.
You can also check out some of Tunick's prior work in his section of the I-20 gallery online.
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