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Apple Debuts New iPhone Recycling Robot Daisy and GiveBack Trade-In Program
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I immediately had the mental picture of Daisy disassembling Liam while it screamed...
So, how many phones is Samsung's Recycling Robot doing? LG's? HTC's? Google's?
Thought so...
Where does it say that hundreds of millions of phones are being shipped to these two facilities?
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35 million recycled phones a year is nothing? Hmmmmm okay.
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Yes let's all instead believe the anonymous internet poster who lacks any facts to support his position.
Brilliant - now Apple has convinced consumers to not only pay for their devices, but then give them back, too!
Really? I doubt that. Used iPhones have a high cash value. Many carriers offer trade in deals or require the phone be given back depending on the plan. Even with very old iPhones, I doubt they are just tossed in the trash.
Another movie voice:
"I don't know who you are. I do know what you want. I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired during my very short career. If you recycle now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."
Don’t forget about mining, processing, and fabricating new raw materials. That takes a huge amount of energy.
Perhaps, the last resort for these iMac Pro - https://www.macrumors.com/2018/04/18/linus-tech-tips-imac-pro-repair-video/ 
Depends on the value of the metals and other materials contained within those phones, doesn't it? You can fit a lot of iPhones in a container, and shipping a container is pretty cheap. The shipping cost per phone is probably negligible compared to the value derived from properly disassembling the phone.
Yes any bad thing completely, and perfectly cancels out any good thing. /s
FYI, one robot can process 3.5 million phones per year. That's only enough to fill just 7 shipping containers. If they didn't recycle, the raw materials would still need to be shipped from the mines, so some number close to 7 shipping containers, would still be on the move between multiple locations.
Apple is so awesome green. Tim really got this. Imagine, if you break the display of an iPhone or lets say, a Mac Pro, you don't have to throw it away, you can avoid it to end up in landfill. You get the necessary parts from Apple to repair and reuse it! Thats awesome!
they will do whatever's possible to show them in a better light. this is nothing else than an attempt to convince people how great and environmental friendly they are. if they are really serious about that they would introduce it without wrapping it into their typical BS PR talk
Apple sold approx 217 million phones in 2017
Almost 600,000 per day.
That's 25,000 a hour (24 hours a day)
And this robot can (best case) take apart 200 per hour.
So what happens to the other 24,800 each hour?
Almost 600,000 per day.
That's 25,000 a hour (24 hours a day)
And this robot can (best case) take apart 200 per hour.
So what happens to the other 24,800 each hour?
3.5 million but yes, definitely a good thing. I'm sure more will be being built too as they learn more and more
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What happened to them for the last 10 years? Can't we be happy that progress is being made rather than being angry something didn't go from almost 0% - 100% overnight?
It's just some silly PR stunt as usual.
Like an important person on camera telling you how he's not using coal on his fire at home and showing you the benefit, meanwhile round the corner, with no camera's and no one interested you have a coal fired power station churning out fumes a million times more each minute.
But in the public's eyes this guy is all they see,
It's good to re-use stuff, but really we should be repairing.
It's companies like Apple who are causing all the problem that they are trying to look good in saying how they are helping, when it's their main plan to be as anti making things last as possible to earn more money.
My guess is that only a few % Max of people will send or trade in their iPhones to Apple, most get better deals=$ somewhere else so I think *3.5 Million isn't bad at all.
*3.5 Million Maximum per year 24/7/365 but even robots have downtime for maintenance and other reasons like Holidays for people which support the robots like feeding them the iPhones so it's a bit less than 3.5 million.
Indeed but phones cant vanish, if Apple keep making this many every year, then the same amount will have to come out the "other side" so to speak, be that 1 year or more later.
Every single phone, will have an end of life, so perhaps 99.5% are just scrapped on a tip?
iPhone batteries have been replaceable since the first iPhone shipped 11 years ago. Every single model.
How about coming up with legitimate complaints (which do exist) instead of fake news?
