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In a statement on its site, it makes it clear that Steve Jobs' commitment to increasing the amount of waste it recycles, and eliminating many toxic chemicals is 'not everything we asked for'.

'While customers in the US will be

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able to return their Apple products for recycling knowing that their gear won't end up in the e-waste mountains of Asia and India, Apple isn't making that promise to anyone but customers in the USA,' it says. It goes on to say that 'elsewhere in the world, an Apple product today can still be tomorrow's e-waste.' It makes no mention of the fact that Apple plans to expand its currently US-only iPod recycling scheme to stores worldwide.

Although Greenpeace states that it looks forward to 'working with the new, greener Apple in the future', it believes that 'Apple must begin to address ... growing problems [of e-waste in and difficulty in recycling some products] to ensure that the workers and children of Asia and many developing nations no longer face the unnecessary environmental and health dangers posed by the high-tech industry's waste.'

It says its work is not over 'until Apple users get that'.