HP Pavilion v72 17 inch CRT Monitor - Manual (Page 37)

User’s Guide D–1
D
TCO‘99 Requirements
You have just purchased a TCO’99 approved and labelled
product. Your choice has provided you with a product developed
for professional use. Your purchase has also contributed to
reducing the burden on the environment and also to the further
development of environmentally adapted electronics products.
Why do we have environmentally labelled
computers?
In many countries/regions, environmental labelling has become
an established method for encouraging the adaptation of goods
and services to the environment. The main problem, as far as
computers and other electronics equipment are concerned, is that
environmentally harmful substances are used both in the products
and during their manufacture. Since it is not so far possible to
satisfactorily recycle the majority of electronics equipment, most of
these potentially damaging substances sooner or later enter nature.