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When Apple destroys your old device, plenty of perfectly functional computer processing chips and cameras that could live on — whether in refurbished phones, toy pianos, hobby drones, or smart appliances — get melted down. Screens that could have replaced cracked ones, lending a few years of life to an older phone, are pulverized, and the trace amounts of the minerals that make them work are lost as so much dust.
What’s more, all the energy that went into mining, refining, manufacturing, shipping, and assembling those materials evaporates.
The article makes an interesting point that many of us, even if we do recycle, recycle too quickly.
If the device is still working, I’d rather resell or donate anyway.
But is the custom A series chip REALLY going to be used again? And is it really feasible to pull out the commodity electronics, certify that they still work, store them, inventory then and find a market for them?
This linked article is a horseshit bleeding heart rant from an armchair QB hoarder.
Apple has every right to control its products from design, through manufacture, through support, through maintenance, to destruction/recycling. It also has every right to protect its IP.
Liam is an important step in the right direction. Leave well enough alone!
Of course, but Liam is for devices that AREN’T still working.
The linked article still has a valid point to make about disposing of reusable parts.
I love it when you get all Archie Bunker.
“The Renew approach is better than letting electronics, with their resource-intensive combination of precious metals and finely-wrought technology, sit in a drawer or landfill”
…there’s the rub. these things usually end up in a drawer for years.
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