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.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Monday April 24 2017, @07:58AM
When stuff is made like the disposable dollar-store flashlight I saw... made to run till the battery dies ... then throw it away, or those cheap cameras that were only designed to expose one load of film, I also expect to pay a disposable's price.
Maybe $5?
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]