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Just Threw iPhone in Garbage - Bad Idea?
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So with all those recycling programs carriers have, and most you just drop in the box, why couldn't you just do that? Why did you choose this method? Is 5 minutes of your time really that important? If it is, I hope you don't even have a tv at home because you wouldn't have time to watch that!
give it to a friend or family member, Apple will do an out of warrantee repair for $79 and replace it with a refurb. If not, at least recycle it, take it to the Apple store, Best Buy, or even go online to gazelle.com and they will ship you a box to send your phone in.
It's a 3 - would Apple even consider it???
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"...people do buy broken iPhones on ebay..." yeah THAT sounds like a safe thing to do with a piece of electronics with all sorts of personal information on it. Recycle through ebay.
Most big-box home improvement stores and Radio Shacks take in electronics for recycling. Takes about 30 seconds to drop off.
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Funny story about what you just said. Next door neighbor (foreign national moved to U.S. couple of years ago) set his iMac out by his recycle bins a couple of months ago. Picked it up on my way to work late one night. Works just fine - no cosmetic scratches or any obvious dents/dings. Had 10.6.8 loaded on it so I just updated it. Didn't even wipe his hard drive.
Welcome to the new global Lazy Waste Society!
Ever see films/photos of ship scrapping being done in third-world countries? Talk about an issue of pollution. People wading through seas of toxic sludge barefoot to cut up old tankers 'n such. Talk about Minimata disease!
I've never understood this ever-increasing indifferent attitude involving technology and the environment. Just because it's small, chuck it in the garbage can/landfill and it'll sort itself out all by itself? That's like saying I'm going to stop using my bathroom & just go out in my side/back yard - after all, the environment will take care of it.
People have to begin to understand that technology, no matter that it's iPods/Fones/Macs/Galaxies - whatever, all contain what may seem on the face of it, relatively small and innocuous bits of this and that, that just "tossing them out" like used chewing gum, is actually creating a huge problem for the environment. Think about it - how may iFones have been produced since their introduction and how many have reached their "service life" and simply been tossed in the garbage?
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