EPEAT to reassess ultrathin laptops after Apple flip-flop

Apple lately admitted its mistake of pulling out of EPEAT certifications and announced that it plans to rejoin the environmental criteria system. Within a week of Apple’s new announcement, EPEAT has revealed that it is reassessing how to rate ultrathin laptops (such as the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air) for the various environmental criteria. As per reports, there are speculations that Apple decided to opt out of EPEAT because the latest Macbook Pros are likely to fail the certification process. This is due to assembly techniques like gluing the laptop's battery to its case which makes the device's individual components difficult to recycle. Click here for full story