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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday April 23 2017, @10:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the force-them-to-buy-new dept.

From Motherboard (Vice.com),

Documents obtained by Motherboard: "No reuse. No parts harvesting. No resale."

Apple released its Environmental Responsibility Report Wednesday, an annual grandstanding effort that the company uses to position itself as a progressive, environmentally friendly company. Behind the scenes, though, the company undermines attempts to prolong the lifespan of its products.

Apple's new moonshot plan is to make iPhones and computers entirely out of recycled materials by putting pressure on the recycling industry to innovate. But documents obtained by Motherboard using Freedom of Information requests show that Apple's current practices prevent recyclers from doing the most environmentally friendly thing they could do: Salvage phones and computers from the scrap heap.


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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday April 24 2017, @12:11AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Monday April 24 2017, @12:11AM (#498594) Journal

    > To extract materials for reuse, you'd want piles of -similar- stuff.

    From the article:

    "Materials are manually and mechanically disassembled and shredded into commodity-sized fractions of metals, plastics, and glass," John Yeider, Apple's recycling program manager, wrote [...]

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