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Apple Spotlights Recycling Efforts in 2022 Environmental Progress Report
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But how will Apple sell you another one and another, and another?!
I found a pair of Bose QC35 at a thrift store that was totally gross and the pads were all worn down to a oily film. I spent an afternoon cleaning it and ordered some new pads. Sounds good enough for the combined $35 I spent on it and thankfully it didn't just end up in a landfill.
Sadly it looks like a PITA to replace the battery in 3-4 years.
Twenty F****** percent. 20**%. Plastics are bottom-of-the-barrel at 10%. Likely the 20**% number is undoubtedly (most likely <15% IRL) upstated. Folks, time to rethink buying the "new & shiney" every year. Tim, Lisa, & Apple need to create an optional line of products that are like the Fairphone. F***. A multi-Trillion dollar company which has a good part of its shareholder value created by ignoring spillover costs with substantial PR investments to deflect attention for its horrible impact on Mother Earth. I have been consistent with the message, but for Apple to actually admit (allowing for upstating) 20% is sooooo dishearting.
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(At the micro-level) it's not hypocritical, they just want to make sure you don't get home and discover you don't have a way to charge your phone or that your old charger will charge as fast as the new ones will. It has less to do with selling and more to do with taking care of customers.
The same reason air for your tires at the gas station used to be free but now you have to pay--inflation.
"By eliminating the charger in our packaging we have not only made an extra $30 per iPhone sale because all our customers had was USBA chargers but we have also dramatically lowered our shipping costs by reducing the packaging size and thus the space an iPhone takes in a container.
By not passing these saving onto the consumer we have made even more profit in the last year."
By not passing these saving onto the consumer we have made even more profit in the last year."
Oh really. If it wasn't purely about money then why not drop the price of the phone by the amount of the charging brick and then offer it to buyers when they purchase it as an add on? The easy answer is that it is absolutely all about money. And that is fine, Apple is running a business and profit is their motivation 100% of the time all the time. But don't try and shove the "We are all about the environment" nonsense down my throat constantly when they have sold millions of charging bricks to consumers and made a healthy profit off of it all in the name of "THE ENVIRONMENT!"
Also consider that many source materials have sky rocketed lately so full disassembled products for recycling makes a huge benefit to reducing ricing source or parts cost!!
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Now THAT I’d a smart question. I’d also like to know, as well as how that translates to repairing capabilities.
Apple is a hypocrite who wants to earn more, nothing more. For example, I really help nature. I transfer all my waste to https://www.zerowastegroup.co.uk/ for recycling, not throwing it out on the street If a company really wanted to help the environment, it would make sure that the lifecycle of their devices was as large as possible, and not force you to buy a new device every year. They could, like everyone else, switch to USB Type-C with Lightning to unify the wires, it would really help preserve nature. Since one wire is suitable for all devices and you do not need to buy different ones. So Apple is just an IT giant, which, under the alleged concern for nature, will earn even more on the sale of individual power supplies and on eco-activists who did not want to understand the topic, but took Apple's word for it.