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    Nintendo Has Greenpeace Seeing Red

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    #1  Edited By insouciant


    Nintendo Has Greenpeace Seeing Red
    —Ben Silverman
    Senior Editor
    Yahoo! Video Games 

    It scored 1.4 out of 10 because it doesn't offer voluntary recycling, it did not reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and it did not eliminate its use of harmful polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

    The good thing about Nintendo though is their products last a long time.  Plus most people never throw away their old systems or games.  They keep or sell them.    

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    #2  Edited By aaox
    Ouch, Nintendo. Way to KILL US. Joking aside, that's pretty bad. They should do something about that.
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    #3  Edited By Skald

    Question is, does Nintendo actually care?

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    #4  Edited By Meowayne
     
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    #5  Edited By HandsomeDead

    Is this new? Because I remember a similar story from a few months back.

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    #6  Edited By natetodamax

    This isn't new, I don't think.

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    #7  Edited By Castro

    Greenpeace is always ragging on Nintendo. Screw Greenpeace. They're as bad as PETA.

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    #8  Edited By luce

    They should put Flower on WiiWare
     
    That should shut em up

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    #9  Edited By Addfwyn

    Eh, it's bad press still, even if people here don't care about environmental issues, many do.
     
    Yes, Greenpeace takes stuff too far sometimes, but they have a valid point sometimes.  Just cause they can be kooks sometimes, they still present valid points other times, you can't just throw out everything because it comes from an agency you don't like.  It's not like Nintendo isn't capable, Sony and MS both score much higher by Greenpeace than Nintendo does.

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    #10  Edited By Binman88
    @HandsomeDead: I'm thinking at least a year or more since I heard this :S
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    #11  Edited By Famov
    @Addfwyn said:

    "Eh, it's bad press still, even if people here don't care about environmental issues, many do. Yes, Greenpeace takes stuff too far sometimes, but they have a valid point sometimes.  Just cause they can be kooks sometimes, they still present valid points other times, you can't just throw out everything because it comes from an agency you don't like.  It's not like Nintendo isn't capable, Sony and MS both score much higher by Greenpeace than Nintendo does. "


    Microsoft was pretty low, for whatever that's worth.
     
    If Environmentalism was a religion (which it is) then Greenpeace would be self flagellating monks who talk about how man is bringing about his own doom (which they are, and they do).
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    #12  Edited By neoepoch
    @Addfwyn said:

    " Eh, it's bad press still, even if people here don't care about environmental issues, many do. Yes, Greenpeace takes stuff too far sometimes, but they have a valid point sometimes.  Just cause they can be kooks sometimes, they still present valid points other times, you can't just throw out everything because it comes from an agency you don't like.  It's not like Nintendo isn't capable, Sony and MS both score much higher by Greenpeace than Nintendo does. "

     Nintendo scored a 0 in 2008, and I believe Sony scored highest out of the console makers. And they are still rolling in the money and are still the number 1 console seller. I doubt people are making their console decisions based on what Greenpeace has to say...mostly because Greenpeace is...well I'm just not going to go there.
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    #13  Edited By Cube

    Oh no, my entire world is crumbling over this.

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    #14  Edited By Scooper
    @HandsomeDead said:
    " Is this new? Because I remember a similar story from a few months back. "

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