Contact your local town hall and ask if your town has a recycling center.
Many towns do and it generally has a place to bring in dead batteries, amongst many things, for recycling.
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Apple Increasing the Price of Out-of Warranty iPhone, Mac, and iPad Battery Replacements Starting in March
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Many towns do and it generally has a place to bring in dead batteries, amongst many things, for recycling.
I like how you think, and I also agree with you🙂
The problem for me is that my iphone, and the earlier ones, will never hit 80% battery health or under before two year.
My current 12 PM is exactly 2 years old this month, and I have 88% battery health left.
As I have understand it, so wouldn't Apple change battery before 80% for free with AC+?
Or maybe they will? I'm not sure🙂
PainIn the EU (I've checked Italy, France and Germany) the current price is 75€, they'll increase it by 24€.
$106 to get a battery replaced
What?? But Apple cares so much for the environment... You'd think they'd facilitate the changing of batteries, even if it comes at a slight cost to them, not make it harder!! 😮 oh man thats cRaZy
Apple doesnt care about the environment.
Unless Apple manufactures the battery themselves, battery from the OEM supplier is the same battery without the
sticker. I get a lot of Denso parts for my Tacoma and it's the exact same part as what I get from the There’s no such thing as a ‘cost to them’. Every penny that Apple makes comes from the consumer, so it’s the consumer that pays. Apple subsidising the cost of replacing batteries just means the price somewhere else has to go up to compensate. Both costs are paid by consumers.
Pathetic. If Apple was truly a “green” company they would be doing all they can to ensure people hang out to devices longer.
They haven’t changed any available service, they’ve just made it more expensive.
It’s really the consumer who gets to decide if they want to be green or not (by either choosing to replace the battery, or not).
Personally I’d still choose to change the battery.
I would like to see stats on this. I don’t believe that the number of batteries thrown into the garbage would be very high in case of a phone battery. But I could be wrong.
We’d need to look at something like AA batteries and see how many of them are recycled vs chucked away.
Different thing. AA batteries are common, in many devices, and only few people use rechargeable ones. Your phone battery is exchanged every 2 years or so. much different mental state. Also, everyone should know that we have to recycle rechargeable batteries differently than one-use batteries.
another thought. Offer money for returning the old battery. Offer enough so people do it, and put the price on the new one.
Considering batteries are dangerous goods in transport, how much do you think it costs to ship a battery? The last time I had to return something with a battery it cost me like $20 extra to ship. Never mind my return shipping was worth more than the item cost.
In the u.s. If you replace a car battery yourself, you need to bring the old battery with you at time of purchase or pay a deposit until bring it back. Really helps with the improper disposal.
Imagine if you could just unclip the battery from the back of your iPhone and pop in a new one in three seconds.
From the waste management perspective, Apple controlling battery replacements means batteries are less likely to end up in landfills and landfills don’t have to deal with fires as a result of Li-ion batteries being chucked in the garbage. Not to mention the hazmat shipping aspect that most people just ignore when shipping because declaring hazmat means more cost.
Whats wrong with buying a new $2000 phone every year ? I mean the old days you pushed a slider off the back and changed the battery POOF easy ! Why can't apple do this.
Since Congress passed the Mercury-Containing Battery Management Act in 1996, most disposable alkaline batteries contain little or no mercury. As a result, they're considered nontoxic enough to toss out with the household trash.
Now in the next phase of dying profit strategies. Phone sales are down because of lack of new compelling features. To compensate, jack the price of maintaining older devices in order to help spark sales of new devices. What a sad state this company is in now. Lack of innovation for over 12 years. a long trend of botched hardware failures... It's really sad. Looks like the move to ARM processors for desktops has hit a wall already too. Who can afford a $1500+ phone to take subpar pictures and text. They are out of their minds with greed now.
For $20 more, I think that I am still going to pay for a battery change over getting a new $1000+ phone.
They have to recoup the disastrous iPhone 14 Plus sales someplace. This will help pad their failures a bit during the next earnings release.
Accidental damage, worn part’s because of manufacturer defects. Not to mention it’s included with most carrier plans or the iPhone upgrade program.