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Apple Celebrating Earth Day With $1 Donation for Every Apple Store Purchase Made With Apple Pay

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From now until Earth Day on April 22, Apple is planning to donate $1 to the World Wildlife Fund for every Apple Pay transaction made in Apple Stores, through the Apple Store app, or on the Apple.com website.

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Apple announced the promotion in an email that went out to Apple Pay users today, and it is the same promotion that Apple has also done in past years, though with different charities benefitting.
For 60 years, World Wildlife Fund has worked to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on Earth.Connecting cutting-edge conservation science with the collective power of its partners in the field, World Wildlife Fund strives to develop and deliver innovative solutions that protect communities, wildlife, and the places in which they live.
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Apple also used the email to highlight its own environmental commitments and its plan to make every Apple product carbon neutral by 2030.

Along with World Wildlife Fund donations, Apple will celebrate Earth Day with an Activity Challenge. Users can do any workout for 30 minutes or longer on April 22 to earn a special badge in the fitness app.

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Apple also often tweaks the Apple logo on Apple retail stores in celebration of Earth Day, turning the leaf green.

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From now until Earth Day on April 22, Apple is planning to donate $1 to the World Wildlife Fund for every Apple Pay transaction made in Apple Stores, through the Apple Store app, or on the Apple.com website.
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Hmm... not seeing any (easy) way to do five hundred separate transactions for Apple gift cards with $1 value.

Ah... I see $10 is minimum gift card amount. Bummer.
 
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LOL. While I support Apple's donations to environmental groups, of course, the irony of making big $$$ on products with non-replaceable batteries and glued down, non-replaceable individual components while indulging in an ongoing PR push about sustainability is the real elephant (panda/manatee/whale) in the room.
 
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sw1tcher said:
Hmm... not seeing any (easy) way to do five hundred separate transactions for Apple gift cards with $1 value.

Ah... I see $10 is minimum gift card amount. Bummer.
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Why... would you want to do this? The only party benefitting this is your credit card company raking in the transaction fees at Apple's expense.
 
turbineseaplane said:
How about celebrating Earth Day by making some products that are built to be more upgradeable, user serviceable and thus last longer?
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While I'm very much for the idea of user reparability, I've always wondered whether the components/structures to make it repairable might have an adverse cumulative impact if only a small fraction of users actually take advantage of that to do repairs. For example, the MBP 2008's battery was made to be taken out without tools, but needed a lot more hard plastic to make it robust enough compared to the battery pouches on the newer MBPs. Almost every non-tech savvy person I know will just buy a new one if something breaks and can't be fixed for free by the manufacturer.
 
Am I the only one that has never gotten an email for Apple pay promotions? I always find out here.
 
szw-mapple fan said:
For example, the MBP 2008's battery was made to be taken out without tools, but needed a lot more hard plastic to make it robust enough compared to the battery pouches on the newer MBPs. Almost every non-tech savvy person I know will just buy a new one if something breaks and can't be fixed for free by the manufacturer.
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The key here is to get tech companies (perhaps force them) to embrace a different ethos.
We are running the planet into the ground with our current model

Things absolutely could be (and would need to be) designed with more modularity and repairability in mind, from moment one.

Apple really hasn't ever done this (the incentives haven't been there) -- but I'm positive they could.
 
dannyyankou said:
You can buy 500 packs of AirPods tips and they'd be forced to eat up 12.5% of that cost
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Ha! You would need a) find a store with 500 of them in stock and b) complete each transaction individually. You can probably get around A with the online store, but B is still going to take hours.
 
turbineseaplane said:
The key here is to get tech companies (perhaps force them) to embrace a different ethos.
We are running the planet into the ground with our current model

Things absolutely could be (and would need to be) designed with more modularity and repairability in mind, from moment one.

Apple really hasn't ever done this (the incentives haven't been there) -- but I'm positive they could.
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Check your tense usage: we have run the planet into the ground.
We cannot even maintain the habitable planet that gave rise to our species, but fetishize somehow transforming an inhospitable, barren planet that lacks a magnetic field/atmosphere/adequate gravity/etc into some sort of escape hatch for the absurdly wealthy.
 
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LOL. While I support Apple's donations to environmental groups, of course, the irony of making big $$$ on products with non-replaceable batteries and glued down, non-replaceable individual components while indulging in an ongoing PR push about sustainability is the real elephant (panda/manatee/whale) in the room.
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Replacement batteries doesn’t help sustainability either. Seems like you’re hating just because.

Recycling of batteries is sustainable and Apple should if not already take in older products to replace batteries and send to the companies that recycle batteries.
 
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The key here is to get tech companies (perhaps force them) to embrace a different ethos.
We are running the planet into the ground with our current model

Things absolutely could be (and would need to be) designed with more modularity and repairability in mind, from moment one.

Apple really hasn't ever done this (the incentives haven't been there) -- but I'm positive they could.
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Designing products to be more modular does NOT and has NOT in ANY way resolved any issues with sustainability. You’re just asking for what you want. It doesn’t abs has been the previous model never solved any environmental issues.

People upgrade and discard or sell or trash the previous parts - very commonly which ads to waste/landfill sites. The toxic materials in products in the past is not used or very rarely in new products.

Oh and previous to 2012 many Apple products have been modular:

MacBooks you could replace battery, ram and ssd or hdd before. This was a higher cost in manufacturing. Too much outsourcing for a part & too many steps. Assembly times also grew. Now with 1 major manufacturing partner, source materials are packaged or assembled in house less parts for each component to make a whole product. Bereft economies of scale cheaper manufacturing/assembly. Tesla has done with with giga casting in back or front end for their model Y and slowly to ramp up this new production model. An employee has stated the old multiple parts assembly method took 3-6hrs to assemble just the rear end underbody. Now it takes 30-60 seconds!!

Lately Apple will announce products and have shipped in 2wks from announcement. No more announce and 3mths later availability.
 
Apples always doing something good in times of Need. More companies like Amazon, Netflix, Facebook(meta) etc should adopt the same policy
 
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