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Apple's 'Environmental Obligations Are Not Taken Seriously Enough,' Say British Lawmakers

Bryan Bowler said:
Lawmakers are laughable at best. The moment they don’t get the attention they crave, they come up with clickbait stories. Apple is a true leader in environmental waste issues.
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No, they are not. Sure, there are companies that are worse. But that’s a little „whataboutism“, Russia style, and doesn‘t mean, Apple shouldn‘t do better. Have a broken front-glass on your iphone? Whole display needs to be changed. Same with the keyboard on macbooks, glued in batteries, all-in-one-imac screens that are thrown away with the rest of the computer, proprietary charging solutions, not very long-lasting iphone-cases/watchbands...

And this has to be done from the regulators position. Otherwise companies will for sure try to cut costs and make smaller and less repairable devices. Yes, Apple is doing nice green PR about getting rid of rare materials, clean energy and recycling programs. But they are still a major producer of e-waste and a lot of throw-away products - putting a green hat on top of that doesn‘t change that.
 
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Eriamjh1138@DAN said:
I think people are missing the fact that there are billions of Apple devices from iPods to iPhones out there. Some are in drawers, many are in our pockets.

When the next iOS release drops them, there will need to be some recycling done. I think that’s the problem they are trying to avoid.

The comment about crummy android devices is relevant but those are spread across hundreds or thousands of companies. One (Apple) is easier to focus on.
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Apple already offers to recycle every one of those devices for free.
 
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ggibson913 said:
Apple will recycle for any product it sells for free, including shipping a box to your house. I am unsure what else Apple can do regarding e-waste.
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I think the issue is less what their actions and policies may or may not be, and more them not putting forward someone to discuss the matter.
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ZivaD said:
This coming from a government that just decided to break the law as they wish?

Apple should now disregard anything that boris and his lying cronies say.
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Hey, they're only breaking the law in very specific and limited ways!
 
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Bunch of political hypocrites! How about sorting out their national environmental policies and urge the US govt to do the same thing! Apple's impact is tiny in comparison and has been doing far more than some of those political types.
 
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true god said:
Apple could make their devices more user repairable. But that wouldn't go well with the planned obsolescence model.
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Repairing Apple products was great back in the 80's, but as customers wanted smaller and smaller computer products, the electronics got smaller and smaller. I was an Apple level 2 repair engineer, will soldering gun will travel. I fixed many of Apple products in the 80's but with any technology it moves on.

I remember when I was 8 year old going to the local small store and taking our vacuum tubes from our RCA console TV to test them if they were good or bad. This is one of my best father and son memories and got me into electronics and computer technology. 🙂
 
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The British lawmaker - Philip Dunne MP, voted to break international law last night. Such hypocrisy! Why should Apple, or anyone else care what he or the British Government think now. Our international reputation is in tatters.
 
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Jakewilk said:
Of all the companies to go after... not the ones making billions of android devices that are obsolete after two years of updates...
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Which one is making billions?
As people around here love to say when an Apple device goes obsolete, "it still works just as well as it always did".
 
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The UK is a joke of a country now that they're ignoring international law with their UK Internal Markets bill. The brit gov't is planning to role back immigration protections, human rights laws, and that's just the beginning. To accuse Apple of dodging their responsibilities is a big joke. The UK is as irrelevant to most of the rest of the world. An island nation without any trade agreements.
 
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IMPORTANT NOTE FOR EVERYONE THINKING THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAS A CHEEK TO SAY THIS GIVEN WHAT A SHOWER OF SELFISH UNPRINCIPLED LAW-BREAKING BUFFOONS THEY ARE:
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This article is about a parliamentary select committee. That's not a branch of the current administration, it's an independent, cross-party committee (as I understand it). The MPs involved may or may not be honourable people but they're not (or at least they're not all) representative of, or represented by, the current British executive.
 
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Whilst Apple may not be as bad as some they still don’t exactly have green fingers when Apple Genius employees will advocate £750 motherboard replacements rather than investigate and realise a £20 cable will fix the issue
 
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