Lenovo joins Electronics Product stewardship Canada.Lenovo Canada was welcomed as a member of Electronics Product Stewardship Product stewardship is a concept whereby environmental protection centers around the product itself, and everyone involved in the lifespan of the product is called upon to take up responsibility to reduce its environmental impact. Canada (EPSC EPSC Excitatory Postsynaptic Current EPSC Earth and Planetary Sciences EPSC European Process Safety Centre EPSC Erosion Prevention and Sediment Control EPSC Escola Politècnica Superior de Castelldefels ) at the organization's board of directors meeting June 16, 2005, in Toronto. Lenovo is the world's third-largest personal computing company. Formed by Lenovo Group's acquisition of IBM's Personal Computing Division, the company employs 19,000 people worldwide and develops, manufactures and markets technology products including ThinkPad notebooks, ThinkCentre PCs and ThinkVision monitors. Eighteen consumer electronics and information technology companies currently comprise EPSC's membership. EPSC's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. David Betts said, "We are encouraged that Lenovo has now joined our organization as we continue to work through these next critical stages to develop sustainable solutions for electronic waste in Canada." The Electro-Federation Canada, the Information Technology Association of Canada Information Technology Association of Canada (or Association canadienne de la technolgie de l'information) is a lobby group representing members (companies) of Canada's information and communications technologies (ICT) industry. and leading consumer electronics and information technology manufacturers formed the EPSC in 2003. Governed by a board of directors, its current members include: Apple Canada Inc., Brother International Corporation (Canada) Ltd., Canon Canada Inc., Dell Canada, Epson Canada Ltd., Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co., Hitachi Canada Ltd., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Canada Ltd., Lenovo (Canada) Inc., Lexmark Canada Inc., LG Electronics Canada, Microsoft Canada Co., Panasonic Canada Inc. and Samsung Electronics Canada Inc., among others. |
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