rothbart
07-06-2007, 12:27 PM
Sony Taking "Green" To A Whole New Level
by Sean Workman
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It's very common in our time of increasing hazardous waste and low volume recycling to hear of companies "going green". *Apple Computer for example has a led a massive internal effort to remove toxic chemicals from their products and many companies such as HP and Xerox have long been behind consumer product recycling programs. *Researchers Robert Thorn and Sol Roth from research and analysis firm GreenCert Inc. recently released a report detailing a rather unexpected find. *While performing routine research on the practices of the world largest consumer electronics companies (often the worst pollution offenders, globally) they uncovered a surprising piece of information about the manufacturing facility that made Sony's highly touted Cell processor. *During analysis of resources used to create this revolutionary chip, GreenCert noticed two unfamiliar items listed as required, those items were simply listed as SSEA3 and SSEA4. *Being a unique component to the Cell processor that GreenCert hadn't seen used before, they initiated a side investigation to determine what, if any, special handling or disposal is needed since they weren't listed on their hazardous materials data sheets. *Upon further investigation, it was revealed that SSEA is actually Stage Specific Embryonic Antigen. *The Cell processor actually uses human embryonic stem cells as one of the key ingredients during the manufacturing process. *Quite literally, the Cell is partly made from (and this is only a slight stretch of the definition), people -- babies to be more precise. *Sony has so far refused to comment on these findings.
by Sean Workman
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It's very common in our time of increasing hazardous waste and low volume recycling to hear of companies "going green". *Apple Computer for example has a led a massive internal effort to remove toxic chemicals from their products and many companies such as HP and Xerox have long been behind consumer product recycling programs. *Researchers Robert Thorn and Sol Roth from research and analysis firm GreenCert Inc. recently released a report detailing a rather unexpected find. *While performing routine research on the practices of the world largest consumer electronics companies (often the worst pollution offenders, globally) they uncovered a surprising piece of information about the manufacturing facility that made Sony's highly touted Cell processor. *During analysis of resources used to create this revolutionary chip, GreenCert noticed two unfamiliar items listed as required, those items were simply listed as SSEA3 and SSEA4. *Being a unique component to the Cell processor that GreenCert hadn't seen used before, they initiated a side investigation to determine what, if any, special handling or disposal is needed since they weren't listed on their hazardous materials data sheets. *Upon further investigation, it was revealed that SSEA is actually Stage Specific Embryonic Antigen. *The Cell processor actually uses human embryonic stem cells as one of the key ingredients during the manufacturing process. *Quite literally, the Cell is partly made from (and this is only a slight stretch of the definition), people -- babies to be more precise. *Sony has so far refused to comment on these findings.