Mario is polluting the environment

It looks like Nintendo’s squeaky clean family image isn’t so pristine after all. According to a recent gamedaily report, Nintendo has become the first global company to score a zero on Greenpeace’s guide to greener electronics. Ouch – this means that the company scored nil on each and every criteria.

As for the other players in the big three, Microsoft fared pretty badly as well, with a total score of 2.7 out of 10, due to an issue with toxic chemical eliminations and a poor takeback policy. Sony, however, scored fairly well at 7.3 out of 10, with “more products free of toxic PVC and improved reporting on recycling and takeback especially in the U.S.”

Of course, the worst offender was Nintendo,

“with no product specification or list of banned/restricted substances, no information on how the company communicates with its supply chain, and no mechanism for identifying substances for future elimination or examples of these substances.”

I guess releasing Chibi Robo: Park Patrol just isn’t good enough, Nintendo.

Read [Gamedaily]