Here we go again. Most of the chemicals are only "dangeous" if ingested or licked or sucked on for a long time. I think even the most determined 2 year old would have trouble swallowing a 360!

Greenpeace must be getting low on funding again, so trying to find issues that aren't there to get some cahs in.

Well i'll try to stop opening up my console and eating the components until greenpeace say its safe...

just apply spray paint

</groan>

Who cares how 'green' a console is - I'm already top-score with 570,000 on the Wii-sports "Club a Baby Seal" game!

You can see in the picture... lots of green. My 360 is covered in green bits...

Okay the PS3 is black and the Wii is white... So get an xbox and the eco fiends will leave you alone...

mines the one with the hemp lining and reed twine zip

Greenpeace would be a lot better off ensuring that said toxins, nasty chemicals etc are disposed of and produced responsibly rather than moaning that they are used in something.

On the same logic, Greenpeace should be campaigning against Church Roofs. I'm sure that would get a hell of a lot more publicity.

But that's not the point, is it? There's always been a certain amount of insinuation that technology is inherently bad in and of itself and if people would just stop hankering for it then everything would be alright. It's this lazy kind of activism that really winds me up - let's get something that's totally not important all over the media in the vainglorious hope that we'll get some crossover coverage on the other stuff, like large scale pollution of groundwater due to the cynanide leaching method of mining. Does it happen? Of course not! All the media consultants and PR flunkies are busy working on the next non-issue press release and pretty soon that's all you become known for. The sad thing is that Greenpeace used to put out the odd nugget that actually made sense and set one thinking. I haven't seen one for nearly a decade though.

On a side note, chemicals stopping people having kids is surely good for the environment as population pressure is one of the biggest threats to it.

"Worryingly, Greenpeace found pthalates in both the Xbox 360 and PS3. Phthalates are believed to interfere with sexual development in male mammals."

Well, from the crap I see spouted by various console fanbois, I'd suggest there isn't a problem - they are obviously well sexually developed, as otherwise, how could be possibly be such total wankers.

<insert generic "greenpiece - arsepiece more like it" vaguely right-of-centre commment here>

Steven R

Two words - pi$$ off.

"Worryingly, Greenpeace found pthalates in both the Xbox 360 and PS3"

Pthalates are absolutely everywhere, no point worrying about the tiny amounts in the wiring in consoles believe me.

"The only way to go green is to get rid of all the fun things......"

And that's their aim I reckon, as well as having us all live third-world lifestyles so we don't damage the earth at all.

Get your coat & leave you plebs.

That explains it! Not the hours sat in front of a TV playing with my joystick, it was the Phthalates.

<sues Sony for stopping me fulfilling my genetic imperatives, hence causing the preemptive slaughter of any descendants I might have some day>

"...are believed to interfere with sexual development in male mammals."

Who wants to mate with a gaming dork, anyway... that's the only thing hampering my reproductive capability. "Hey baby, wanna see me pwn mad noobs?" doesn't really go over well in a bar, which is why we have, GTA 4... "Oh, Kate, you complete me."

Another victory for irrationality.

"Still, without Greenpeace nagging at companies and lobbying of governments, would Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have achieved this much? We suspect not."

Achieved what? Bowing to a non-existent threat?

Greenpeace would be even happier if there were no games consoles - they're a decadent capitalist extravagance. As is anything modern. People must be made to be as unhappy as possible.

Remember that Greenpeace is never low on funding. Their annual budget in 2005 was 173 million Euros -

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/annual-report-2006.pdf

All they need is gullible journalists who can reprint the manufactured scare stories without question.

"Microsoft has, according to Greenpeace, committed itself to eliminating the use of............. brominated flame-retardants in its hardware by 2010."

And in 2011 mankind perishes in a tide of flaming Xboxes. Thanks Greenpeace!

... GREEPEACE HAS TOO MANY HIPPIES.

"Still, without Greenpeace nagging at companies and lobbying of governments, would Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have achieved this much? We suspect not."

This is probably the most important part of the article. Without these whingers then there qould be no RoHS and children's toys would still be covered in lead-rich paint, even the ones not made in China.

"Well i'll try to stop opening up my console and eating the components until greenpeace say its safe..."

Has it ever crossed your mind that your console existed before you bought it and will continue to do so after you chuck it in the bin? It may be surprising but solipsism is only a hypothesis, when stuff leaves your immediacy it does not just cease to exist.

listen when greenpeace build a eco-friendly console that is as good as my playstation 3 or my xbox 360 i will buy one, but until then the hippys can just S.T.F.U !

we are ALL going to hell in a handcart so we might as well enjoy the ride.

Wow, most posters have totally misunderstood the issue.

Greenpiece[sic] are bitching about the nasty stuff used to manufacture electronics.

You know: arsenic bearing compounds, hydrofluoric acid, etc.

Even Paris would've understood that.

Greenpeace is about raising issues to get their agenda on the table. They aren't interested in a dialogue with manufacturers, or anyone to be honest. As long as they can feel good about themselves in their smug little ways everyone else can go get stuffed.

Had a 'discussion' with Greenpeace in a town centre. I wanted them to convince me to sign their petition. They weren't interested in talking, only my signature.

I could understand if they're worried about the long-term dissemination of nasty chemicals into the ecosystem after the consoles have been land-filled.

But then again, we pump so many bad chemicals in to the ecosystem, a few million consoles is unlikely to make much difference. Hell, last time anyone checked there was a whole bunch of Russian nuclear submarines going rotten along the banks of the Volga (or some other river, I think it was that one) that'll start depositing reactor-grade nuclear material directly into the sea fairly soon, right near a major fishing zone.

Let's see Greenpeace get the Rainbow Warrior there and clean that mess up, then we'll talk about my controller f*cking up the delicate balance of nature.

Mines the coat with the Bill Hicks CDs in it