Philip Houska Recycling and then reusing Apple products is nothing new. California company with its program "Reuse and Recycle" (loosely translated as "reuse and recycling"), which works on the principle of a counter account, started already two years ago, but only now interesting information about how the whole process actually works has come to the surface.
If the user has an iPhone, iPad, Mac or mobile device and computer from another manufacturer and brings one of them to the Apple Store, he will immediately receive free funds to purchase a new device. This is a traditional form of purchase for consideration.
Editor Bloomberg Tim Culpan has now brought interesting information about how the destruction of such an iPhone, iPad or Mac takes place, which is affected by a lot of regulation.
At the beginning, it is worth mentioning that people already know how their equipment is disposed of when they use a "recycling" program. It is certain that all data is deleted from it. Subsequently, it is then decided where the product will go next – if it is significantly damaged, it goes straight to recycling, but if it has no major defects, it is likely that it will end up on the secondary market.
Li Tong Group, a recycling company specializing in Apple products, has revealed that "much more energy must be put into the scrapping of components than is needed to reuse them afterwards", while trying to push for components from broken devices to be used to produce new ones .
"Apple is shredding all products to prevent the potential for counterfeit products from this brand to appear on the secondary market," said Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president of the environment.
Bloomberg writes that in the electronics recycling sphere, the benchmark is to collect and recycle seventy percent by weight of all devices manufactured in seven years. However, according to Jackson, Apple scores up to fifteen percentage points higher, i.e. 85%.
If you are interested in Apple's recycling process in more detail, you will find its thorough analysis in the article Bloomberg (in English).
