Given the "look how green we are now" (which always amused me as I remembered how green they weren't in previous years) TV ad for Apple which has been running in the UK, I had expected something more from them.

Nintendo are last. Is that because they don't provide details for the survey?

This would be so much more meaningful if Greenpeace didn't have a history of making headline use of bad science to fit their own agenda. Any credibility they may have had went out the window when one of the oil companies wanted to sink an oil rig to dispose of it. Greenpeace got involved and whipped up the unwashed masses with their 'protect the environment' rants to the point that in a number of countries petrol stations were getting firebombed and the oil company eventually agreed to bring the rig ashore to break it up.

A few months later Greenpeace turn around and say 'oops, you were right all along, it would have been safer to just sink it'. Millions of Pounds in costs to everyone (since insurance companies were involved and you know how they like to spread the bill), extra helpings of bad feeling between oil companies and the public, and Greenpeace? well they just keep on keeping on...unelected, unaccountable, uncaring and very unconcerned. I wonder what brand of computer Greenpeace actually have?

Is this the same chart that put Nintendo in last place because they don't actually provide any info, rather than any perceived 'eco-crime'?

.....will continue to select products based on functionality, quality, independant reviews, price and appearance (where applicable). After I've purchased whatever it is, if I'm feeling particularly bored I might just hop over to see how it's manufacturer fares in the ratings for a "meh" moment.

As for commending manufacturers for using recycled plastics in packaging, surely cardboard and paper would be infinitely greener and just as fit for purpose here anyway?

Why does anyone pay attention to this nonsense? Even the biggest tree-hugging hippy I know slams it as a load of distorted twaddle. It's well-known by now that Nintendo rate so low because they refuse to play with Greenpeace's toys, and I would imagine they are far from alone in that.

Like myself - and all the people who buy these things - couldn't give a toss what Greenpeace say.

Not.

Whilst admirable in it's efforts, does anyone actually take any notice of these figures when buying a product?

It's adorable watching them talk out of their arses and judge the entire world.

I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that the reason Nintendo does so badly is that they refuse to fill in the survey forms that are used to determine your score. It's not actually to do with how green you are, but how green your policies are, and how willing you are to fill in forms...

who notices that they are very quick to highlight when companies have become less green, putting a big white arrow to show where they were.

but the same cannot be said of those companies who are making big improvements.