Sony Ericsson includes a coalition of public interest organizations and global technology brands to convince the Parliament to ban the use of hazardous substances in electronics since 2015th
In a partnership announced today, Sony Ericsson has joined Acer, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and public interest organizations ChemSec, Clean Production Action and the European Environmental Bureau, which calls for a strengthening of EU restrictions on Hazardous Substances (RoHS).
Currently limited to the RoHS directive certain heavy metals and two types of brominated flame retardants. However, calls for Sony Ericsson, with other members of the Alliance for all restrictions on brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and PVC. When brominated flame retardants and PVC are incinerated in poor conditions, recycling form halogenated dioxins are potent toxic chemicals. Sony Ericsson believes that this should be brominated flame retardants and PVC, from electrical and electronic products gradually as soon as possible. Over the last 18 months Sony Ericsson has to develop products without these harmful substances, and considers that alternative materials are available and could be for the whole sector or no disturbance can be extended.
Sony Ericsson has now removed all PVC in its products and almost all halogenated flame retardants.
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