GREEN PEACE WRITES "HAZARDOUS PRODUCTS " ON HP's ROOF

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Greenpeace paints ‘hazardous products’ on HP’s roof
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Let
this be a lesson to electronics companies everywhere: If you don’t heed
demands to remove toxic materials from your products, Greenpeace is
going to paint your roof.Luckily, they’ll use nontoxic finger paint.
The negative advertising, visible to passing birds and helicopters,
won’t last longer than the time it takes to power-wash it away.

Unless someone snaps a picture. Or films it.
It
took about 10 minutes for a handful of activists to complete the
mission, Greenpeace International toxics campaigner Casey Harrell said.
Dressed in haz-mat suits and armed with motorized paint-sprayers, they
scaled the building with industrial-strength ladders and blasted the
words “hazardous products” on the roof of Hewlett-Packard’s Palo Alto
headquarters. And they didn’t even get arrested.

The action
followed demands by Greenpeace that Hewlett-Packard fulfill a promise
to stop using hazardous materials such as PVC plastic and brominated
flame retardants, which have been linked to thyroid hormone disruption
in animals.”Greenpeace will not stand idly by while companies that
commit to environmentally responsible action backtrack on commitments,”
Harrell said in a statement Tuesday. “As the number one seller of PCs
worldwide, HP has both the responsibility and the ability to make sure
the company no longer deserves the moniker ‘Hazardous Products.’ “HP
said in a statement that the company was committed to eliminating 
brominated flame retardants and PVC from its PC products by the end of
2011, according to wire reports.

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July 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM