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The mouse's shell is entirely made from Arboform and Biograde, and the mouse's cable doesn't contain PVC. The mouse is currently only available in the U.K. , Fujitsu operates a product recycling program, which already sorts out biodegradable material, in Europe for business customers, working with electronics refurbishers and recyclers.

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GreenBiz

The French Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable Development launched a call for applications addressing companies to take part in a national experiment on the environmental labelling of consumer products. Pursuant to Article 228 of the Grenelle II Law, this voluntary environmental labelling scheme will be “tested” from 1 July 2011 to 1 July 2012 in the form of a one-year pilot labelling project. Attachment that evaluation, the environmental labelling scheme may become compulsory, applying by category of products, as needed.

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This revision is an interim update for REACH, 3 additional chemical substances are added and 2 substances are revised.

The 3^rd batch SVHC of REACH as following,

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Electronic concerned

The latest edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics exposes the widening gap between companies that make good on their promises to clean up, and those that don't. While some of the top electronics manufacturers are failing to keep their environmental commitments, others are innovating and making significant gains in phasing out toxic chemicals, increasing energy efficiency, and making it easier for consumers to recycle old products.

For top two companies, Nokia and Sony Ericsson, earned their position in part by producing products without most of he substances considered hazardous: PVC and brominated flame retardants (BFRs), antimony, beryllium, and phthlates.

Electronics companies and their ranks in this Guide as following,
1 – Nokia (7.5/10)
2 – Sony Ericsson (6.9/10)

SONY updated their ‘SS-00259’ and the major revisions as following,

A) Add below new controlled substances,

-Tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP)

-Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD)

-Diisobutyl phthalate

China government published the Management of Recycling and Disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Products (so-called "China WEEE") in 2009. As a complementary of this regulation, the first product catalogue of China WEEE was officially published at Sep. 8^th, 2010. Five types of products are included in this catalogue, which are,

> Television

> Refrigerator

> Washing machine

> Air conditioner

On September, 24^th 2010, the European Union (EU) published in its Official Journal a European Commission decision amending the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) for applications containing Pb, Hg, Cd, Cr⁶⁺, PBBs or PBDEs in electric and electronic equipment. The new directive 2010/571/EU adapts RoHS exemptions to scientific and technical progress as an Annex to Article 4(1) of Directive 2002/95/EC (RoHS)

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COMMISSION DECISION, 2010/571/EU

    On 26^th August 2010, a number of amendments of the EU Regulation entered into force. The new dangerous chemicals added to the EU Regulation on POPs have already been subject to prohibition or severe restrictions in the EU. With the new amendments certain restrictions go further than previously was the case in order to comply with the new international commitments.

The new chemicals listed are 4 types of,

> 聚溴苯醚(polybromodiphenyl ether)

> α-六氯環氧己烷(alpha hexachlorocyclohexane)

> β-六氯環己烷(beta hexachlorocyclohexane)

德國向歐盟委員會提出建議，要求對8種多環芳香烴（PAHs）制定禁令，凡是含有這些物質的消費品都不得在歐盟境內生產、運輸及銷售。

德國呼籲的限制使用量是0.2 ppm，並在CLP指令下把這8種物質分類為1B級致癌物（危險物質指令下的類別2）。

由於現有的自願協定如德國GS標識、歐盟生態標籤都不能解決該問題；而歐盟一般的產品安全指令範圍又過於狹隘，故此次德國選擇呼籲REACH法規的限制而非進行風險管理。8種多環芳香烴分別為：

> Benzo(a)pyrene

> Benzo(b)fluoranthene

SDS is an important element of hazard communication and provides a mechanism for transmitting safety information on classified substances and mixtures, and certain non-classified substances and mixtures, including information from the relevant chemical safety reports down the supply chain to the immediate downstream users. The legal requirements governing SDS are now an integral part of the REACH Regulation, with Annex II of REACH describing the content of SDS, and this SDS update will happen gradually after 1 Dec. 2010,

SDS規定了以下必要的項目，共16項：

1.物品與廠商資料

2.危害辨識資料

3.成份識別資料