HP pavilion f2304 Manuale Utente

You have just purchased a TCO ‘99 approved and labeled 
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 to the further 
development of environmentally adapted electronics products.

Why do we have environmentally labeled computers?
In many countries/regions, environmental labeling 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 (for example, 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.