iPhone 3G Packaging To Be Eco-Friendly

[PaulexPC]

edible packaging?

Consumer electronics companies would LOVE it. Simply because it would reduce returns. You can't return for a refund if you ate the box. Great idea.

 

[tgildred]

So my 5G iPod box will eventually dissolve on my shelf?

...or in your mouth.

Edit: Someone beat me to it. But I stand by my post; I'm no flip-flopper.

 

[tgildred]

you're a crappy chemist. you don't follow protocols. something will blow up in your face one day.

Sounds like it already has.

 

[tgildred]

I hope you're joking.. Haha increased food prices. Mmm potato and Tapioca starch..

🙄 "Oil's Job" is an incredibly recent thing and we need to cut down on it as much as possible. However much there is left is irrelevent, if we're exhausting it on totally pointless crap that's totally irresponsible and wrong. We might well need it for something important later.. Our dependance on oil has to be decreased in any way possible.

Potatoes and Tapioca are easily renewable at least. Also give farmers more to work with.

Not to mention the fact that oil will be retiring sooner than later; whether we like it or not.

 

[MattInOz]

You're. 🙄

Thanks for doing your part to raise fuel prices and drive another 30,000,000 people into poverty with increased food prices, Apple! Let's just keep using food to do oil's job.

Ummm.... why would it increase food prices?
Yes this requires a higher grade of potato and they are willing to pay more then yes food price goes up.

On the other hand if this requires very low grade potato and creates a market value to the the vast tonnes of storm damaged crops each year. Then it will reduce food prices by reducing the Farmers risk, increasing turn over and viability.

 

[darkwing]

I sure am amazed at how much people don't understand simple things here. Ok let me try and spell it out for you.

Many developing nations started putting ethanol in gasoline which some countries, like the USA, make from corn, while others make it from cane sugar like Brazil. (Brazil has moved almost entirely to this, but it works for them since they have so much land and such a small population.) Anyhow, farmers are growing more corn to make ethanol because its price is going up, and they're growing less of other things. What that means is that the price of other things goes up, and it affects just about everything we buy from the store.

The simple point is that if we continue to use food for non-food related things, then it's only the poor who suffer.

But hey, it's people who think like you guys that cause these kinds of problems in the first place. 🙂

 

[bytethese]

Oh woopie! Let me go hug a tree right now...

 

[passingXstorm]

Well there is a difference. The aluminum back on the 3G iPhone was scrapped because aluminum weakens the cell signal and especially causes interference with the 3G antenna. It's not unlike the poor Wi-Fi reception of the original TiBooks. The metal case killed the Wi-Fi signal. So while Apple is trying to be enviro-conscious they aren't going to do so at the expense of their own business when there is an acceptable alternative (plastic).

THANK YOU!

 

[brandonzar]

I consider myself to be fairly environmentally aware, but at this point I think we are already screwed. Not that slowing down the inevitable is a bad idea.

 

[kockgunner]

Sounds like it already has.

haha

btw i was just rereading this post and i just hate how people are so indifferent to the environment.

 

[mixel]

I sure am amazed at how much people don't understand simple things here. Ok let me try and spell it out for you.
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The simple point is that if we continue to use food for non-food related things, then it's only the poor who suffer.

But hey, it's people who think like you guys that cause these kinds of problems in the first place. 🙂

Err.. Not everyone is aware of the technicalities of ethanol etc.. Why would they be? The environment and maintenance of non-renewable is more important than short term fluctuations in the price of foodstuffs (once they get here). There are a lot of places these materials can be grown & reasons why this isn't the same as the ethanol example.

The effect of oil in the economy is already crazy, I wouldn't think shooting down alternatives is a good idea. Market and agricultural change will always be constant, and we need to take steps to protect what we can.

I'm pretty sure people (customers) will be able to afford food still, and as long as there are initiatives in place to make sure its fairly traded and developing countries don't use all their crops for exporting while failing to feed themselves, it's good..

There aren't simple answers to things like this, what Apple are doing is commendable. You have to pick your battles, and Apple are taking an environmental footing this time. Good for them, I say.

Also I suspect your plans for avoiding "these kind of problems" are v interesting, you must be a few steps ahead of the rest of the world. 🙂 There's very little you can do which doesn't cause some negative effect, somehow.

 

[madlymocha]

Although I appreciate the move to a "greener Apple" I was really looking forward to a box similar to the ones from the first iphone. 🙄 Oh well...can't have everything. As long as I get my greedy little hands on that phone on the 11th all is well.

6 days and counting (almost)😀

 

[kockgunner]

so did this rumour turn out to be true? the pictures of the iphone 3g don't look too special.

 

[liquidh2o]

One less thing for Greenpeace to thumb their nose at apple for 🙂

 

[techage14]

I Don't think that they could make it even more eco-friendly.
If only they used cardboard packaging....