Conflict minerals company rankings

[undeterred]

If you're deciding what to buy for Christmas and something electronic is on the list, take a look at this first. This is a ranking of how well companies have done at eliminating the use of 'conflict minerals' from their products.

The Enough Project has ranked the largest electronics companies on their efforts toward using and investing in conflict-free minerals in their products. Our consumer action guide will help you understand what actions companies are (or are not) taking to contribute to the creation of a clean minerals trade in Congo, and ultimately, the reduction of conflict there.

(Intel has done the most, Nintendo the least.)

Intel ★Industry Leader. Intel products include processors, chipsets, and motherboards. 60▲

HP ★Industry Leader. HP products include laptops, desktops, printers, smartphones, and cameras. 54▲

Philips Philips products include televisions and home theater products. 48▲

SanDisk SanDisk products include memory chips, USB devices, video players, and digital music players. 48▲

AMD AMD products include processors, semiconductors, chipsets, motherboard, workstations, and software. 44▲

RIM RIM products include smartphones, tablets, and Bluetooth devices.42▲

Acer Acer products include laptops, tablets, desktops, and projectors.40▲

Dell Dell products include laptops, desktops, printers, televisions, and projectors.40▲

Apple Apple products include laptops, digital music players, smartphones, and tablets.38▲

Microsoft Microsoft products include software, video game consoles, digital music players, computer hardware, and smartphones.38▲

Motorola Mobility Motorola Mobility products include smart phones, mobile phones, tablets, DVD players, and modems.35▲

Nokia Nokia products include mobile phones, smart phones, and laptops.35▲

Panasonic Panasonic products include televisions, Blu-ray products, DVD players, home theater, cameras, camcorders, and printers.33▲

IBM IBM products include software, printers, computers, and routers.27▲

LG LG products include televisions, projectors, Blu-ray products, mobile phones, washer-dryers, vacuums, and refrigerators.27▲

Samsung Samsung products include televisions, Blu-ray products, DVD players, smart phones, tablets, cameras, camcorders, and laptops.27▲

Sony Sony products include smartphones, cell phones, videogame consoles, televisions, tablets, laptops, Blu-ray products, DVD players.27▲

Toshiba Toshiba products include laptops, desktops, televisions, Blu-ray products, and camcorders.21▲

Lenovo Lenovo products include laptops, desktops, tablets, workstations, and webcams.17▲

Canon Canon products include cameras, camcorders, projectors, and printers.8▲


Nikon Nikon products include cameras and lab equipment.8▲


Sharp Sharp products include televisions, Blu-ray products, DVD players, and calculators.8▲


HTC HTC products include smartphones, cellphones, and tablets.4


Nintendo Nintendo products include videogames and videogame consoles.0


Spending your money is a political choice.

More at: http://www.raisehopeforcongo.org/companyrankings

[geckosfeet]

1. hooray, everyone on my list gets an Intel mobo for christmas.

[undeterred]

2. 6 million people have died in these conflicts in the last 15 years.

Sorry to bother you, nothing to see here.

[niyad]

3. k and r and bookmarking for when I am in a position to buy electronics.

[PowerToThePeople]

4. what if you buy second hand electronics?

Should I feel bad if I purchase a second hand Nintendo? Maybe the original owner purchased an X-box the next round. I do not know.

I do not buy very many "brand new" items. But I will keep this list handy if I do.

(My TV is Phillips and I did buy it brand new)

[undeterred]

5. I think it is impossible for us to live without electronics.

Nobody on DU is living without electronics. Its pretty hard to be a purist about this. I don't know whether it matters if its new or second hand. But this list at least gives an idea of which companies are trying.

A lot of people have ideas about brands that they've held for a long time. My esteem for a few international companies on this list went way down when I saw that they've made almost no effort, whereas Intel has done everything they possibly could.

The pressure is on companies to change because there is legislation compelling them to report the source of their minerals. But in the meantime, consumer pressure can only help.

If I had looked at this list earlier in the year it would have affected my smartphone purchase, but not the decision to get one.

Is there an alternative to Nintendo?

[UtahLib]

6. Thanks for the information. n/t