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You have just purchased a TCO’99 approved and labelled product! Your choice

has provided you with a product developed for professional use. Your purchase

has also contributed to reducing the burden on the environment and also to the

further development of environmentally adapted electronics products.

In many countries, environmental labelling has become an established method

for encouraging the adaptation of goods and services to the environment. The

main problem, as far as computers and other electronics equipment are

concerned, is that environmentally harmful substances are used both in the

products and during their manufacture. Since it is not so far possible to

satisfactorily recycle the majority of electronics equipment, most of these

potentially damaging substances sooner or later enter nature.

There are also other characteristics of a computer, such as energy

consumption levels, that are important from the viewpoints of both the work

(internal) and natural (external) environments. Since all methods of

electricity generation have a negative effect on the environment (e.g. acidic

and climate-influencing emissions, radioactive waste), it is vital to save

energy. Electronics equipment in offices is often left running continuously and

thereby consumes a lot of energy.

This product meets the requirements for the TCO’99 scheme which provides

for international and environmental labelling of personal computers. The

labelling scheme was developed as a joint effort by the TCO (The Swedish

Confederation of Professional Employees), Svenska Naturskyddsforeningen

(The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation) and Statens Energimyndighet

(The Swedish National Energy Administration).

Environmental Labelling of Personal Computers

Congratulations!

Why do we have

environmentally

labelled computers?

What does labelling

involve?

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