March 6, 2008 - A trio of Sony products bested the competition in Greenpeace's new "Searching for Greener Electronics" survey, but the industry has plenty of room for improvement: the top-scoring products earned just 50 points out of a possible 100.

The Greenpeace report judges 37 products from 14 companies based on their use of hazardous substances, energy efficiency, recyclability, and upgradeability, as well as other metrics such as energy use during production. Products were ranked in four categories: desktops, notebooks, mobile phones, and PDAs.

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