Greenpeace Not Happy with Gaming Consoles Materials
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Greenpeace has released another study about the threats that electronic devices found in our household pose. This time, gaming consoles and the materials they are made from made the international organization raise some questions as to whether they are harmful or not.
The study was conducted in a Greenpeace research facility as well as two other labs. The results have shown that all three most popular devices, Nintendo’s Wii, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3, are compliant with the European Union’s regulations for hazardous materials found in electronic devices. However, if we look at these devices as toys, the level of toxic materials is way above the one permitted by the law.
The chemicals that were discovered were bromine, a substance used to delay the spread of fire, phthalates, which are used to soften plastic, and beryllium. All these materials pose no threat to the people that are playing the game, and storing them in our houses is not dangerous. The people that could really suffer because of them are the ones that take care of the disassembly of the consoles, if the process is not done paying attention to safety issues