Lenovo Gets Green With Recycled Screen
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The industry’s first EPEAT gold-rated PC monitor with the highest levels yet of post-consumer recycled content has entered the market from IBM’s Lenovo business brand.

The ThinkVision L193p was given a gold rating by the industry organisation which claims to assist consumers in the public and private sectors evaluate, compare and select desktop computers, notebooks and monitors based on their environmental attributes.

The L193p joins a new portfolio of PC monitors from Lenovo, including the ThinkVision L190x, which the company claims in the thinnest monitor on the market at just 6.6mm.

“By developing a monitor that achieves EPEAT’s Gold ranking Lenovo is demonstrating its commitment to providing purchasers with high quality, environmentally responsible products,” said Green Electronics Council executive director, Jeff Omelchuck.

The EPEAT tool evaluates products based on 51 environmental criteria in the areas of reduction/elimination of environmentally sensitive materials, design for end of life, product longevity/lifecycle extension, energy conservation, end of life management, packaging and corporate performance.

 

The monitor is the first product in the EPEAT registry to use more than 25 per cent post-consumer recycled content in its plastic parts.

“Lenovo has delivered a comprehensive line of energy efficient and environmentally responsible products, from notebooks to desktops to monitors,” said Lenovo director – global desktop and visuals marketing, Jim Christensen.

“We have more than 40 products that are listed within the EPEAT system with our whole line of Performance Series monitors rated at least EPEAT Silver. The EPEAT Gold rated ThinkVision L193p monitor is our first step toward our goal of elevating all of our monitors to this status.”

The L193p’s 19-inch monitor has a 160/160 degree viewing angle, high contrast ratio, five milliseconds response time and support for high bandwidth digital content protection (HDCP) and analogue and DVI-D signals.