Sony display User Manual

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GDM 5402

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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.

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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.

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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).

Approval requirements cover a wide range of issues: 
environment, ergonomics, usability, emission of electric and 
magnetic fields, energy consumption and electrical and fire 
safety.

The environmental demands impose restrictions on the presence 
and use of heavy metals, brominated and chlorinated flame 
retardants, CFCs (freons) and chlorinated solvents, among other 
things. The product must be prepared for recycling and the 
manufacturer is obliged to have an environmental policy which 
must be adhered to in each country where the company 
implements its operational policy.

The energy requirements include a demand that the computer and/
or display, after a certain period of inactivity, shall reduce its 
power consumption to a lower level in one or more stages. The 
length of time to reactivate the computer shall be reasonable for 
the user.

Labelled products must meet strict environmental demands, for 
example, in respect of the reduction of electric and magnetic 
fields, physical and visual ergonomics and good usability.

Below you will find a brief summary of the environmental 
requirements met by this product. The complete environmental 
criteria document may be ordered from:

SE-114 94 Stockholm, Sweden
Fax: +46 8 782 92 07
Email (Internet): development@tco.se
Current information regarding TCO’99 approved and labelled 
products may also be obtained via the Internet, using the 
address: http://www.tco-info.com/

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Flame retardants are present in printed circuit boards, cables, 
wires, casings and housings. Their purpose is to prevent, or at least 
to delay the spread of fire. Up to 30% of the plastic in a computer 
casing can consist of flame retardant substances. Most flame 
retardants contain bromine or chloride, and those flame retardants 
are chemically related to another group of environmental toxins, 
PCBs. Both the flame retardants containing bromine or chloride 
and the PCBs are suspected of giving rise to severe health effects, 
including reproductive damage in fish-eating birds and mammals, 
due to the bio-accumulative

 processes. Flame retardants have 

been found in human blood and researchers fear that disturbances 
in foetus development may occur.

The relevant TCO’99 demand requires that plastic components 
weighing more than 25 grams must not contain flame retardants with 
organically bound bromine or chlorine. Flame retardants are allowed 
in the printed circuit boards since no substitutes are available.

Cadmium is present in rechargeable batteries and in the colour-
generating layers of certain computer displays. Cadmium 
damages the nervous system and is toxic in high doses. The 
relevant TCO’99 requirement states that batteries, the colour-
generating layers of display screens and the electrical or 
electronics components must not contain any cadmium.