I would defend Nintendo by saying, "The Wii is a recycled Gamecube." I kid, I kid. :P

Oh my God! Nintendo doesn't have a policy regarding Brominated Flame Retardants! That must mean everything they make is FULL of them! They must be MADE of the stuff! They have no stated recycling program? That must mean they make each and every game manual from a two hundred year old redwood! THE WIIMOTE IS MADE OF PEOPLE! No, wait, Greenpeace doesn't care about people. THE WIIMOTE IS MADE OF NUCLEAR WASTE!

Clearly Greenpeace doesn't understand the concept of 'insufficient information'. This isn't a standardized test. You don't NEED to answer, you're marked on what you DO answer.

This is why I hate...well, just about everybody, at this point. Everybody who's part of a special interest group of some sort and gets uppity at people who don't follow their party line to the letter. Yeah, that's probably hypocritical, but I take the view that everybody is a hypocrite. The difference is whether or not you admit it to yourself.

I wish the Wii were made of Greenpeace at this point.

...I really, really hate when people lie with statistics (when I notice it, that is.) And this lie was pretty bad. And easy to find.

@Kendra Kirai:

The logic Greenpeace used of no answer meaning "yes" is the same logic JT's used whenever it suits his purposes. Any wonder I have the same amount of respect (zero) for both?

@ DraginHikari

Man, Isn't Nintendo a real bastard. Only 80% recycled paper? That is a whooping 20% rain forest wood.

Come to think of it, most game publishers/developers are pretty environmentally friendly nowadays. The manuals are no longer than a greeting card. Shame on Civ 4. It has a manual the size of a comic book. What a waste of trees.

I think it's pretty clear that this "guide" is meant to make a point and encourage better practices rather than stand up as actual research. Blaming Nintendo for not being thorough enough with their research is rather like blaming Michael Moore for not presenting both sides of the coin: They both have an agenda, and both have a long history of using sensationalist tactics to advance it. I don't see anything wrong with it as long as Greenpeace continues to disclose their less-than-incisive methodology, especially if it gets people thinking and talking about the massive amounts of waste generated by cast-off electronics.

@Laughing Man

Sounds like the same crap PETA pulls.

"The downside is that the Wii is designed to be constantly plugged-in and online, using power while you’re not playing."

Only if you choose it to be. You can just as easily hold the power button to turn it completely off, duh. It's called reading the manual.

~Sol~

PETA is not as famous as Greenpeace, just PETA makes almost every rally with nude models and goes after celebrities if they use any real leather and furs. That's why they show up in the news, publicity stunts.