Apple speaks
Leadand so on. They're planning their first Macs with LED backlighting by the end of this year.
A typical CRT contains approximately 3 pounds (1.36 kg) of lead. In mid-2006, Apple became the first company in the computer industry to completely eliminate CRTs. The effect has been stunning \ufffd our first CRT-based iMac contained 484 grams of lead; our current third-generation LCD-based iMac contains less than 1 gram of lead.
A note of comparison \ufffd Dell, Gateway, Hewlett Packard and Lenovo still ship CRT displays today.
RoHS
Apple products met both the spirit and letter of the RoHS restrictions on cadmium, hexavalent chromium and brominated flame retardants years before RoHS went into effect.
A note of comparison \ufffd Some electronics companies, whose names you know, still rely on RoHS exemptions and use these toxic chemicals in their products today.
Arsenic Mercury
Apple plans to completely eliminate the use of arsenic in all of its displays by the end of 2008.
Apple plans to reduce and eventually eliminate the use of mercury by transitioning to LED backlighting for all displays when technically and economically feasible.
