Lenovo ThinkPad T420 Is First Laptop To Get UL Environment’s Gold Certification

Underwriters Laboratories' UL Environment group — which validates claims, through lab testing, that a company or its product is environmentally sustainable, and helps thwart "greenwashing" — today reported that its first-ever Gold level Sustainable Product Certification (SPC) for a laptop was given to the forthcoming, Lenovo ThinkPad T420. According to a UL press statement, the SPC Gold certification indicates "a product has met the most stringent and prestigious of three levels of compliance in the industry-wide sustainability standard for laptops, IEEE 1680.1...including reduction or elimination of environmentally sensitive materials in product and packaging, energy conservation, end-of-life management and corporate environmental practices." In 2007, Lenovo began formal Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting....