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Apple Now Offering Free Recycling For PCs

Posted by samzenpus on from the out-with-the-old dept.

MrSeb writes "Do you have a few old, dusty beige-box computers kicking around that you'd like to turn into money? Or perhaps you'd just like to get rid of them, but you lack the means to dispose of them properly? Well, if you're in the US you're in luck: Apple will now provide postage-paid packaging to allow you to recycle your old laptop or desktop PC and its monitor for free, and if it's worth anything, you'll even get an Apple Gift Card in return. In addition, your old iPhone or iPad can now be returned for an Apple Gift Card, too."

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  1. Great idea by Coolhand2120 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm a huge Apple hatter. If I ever bought an Apple product I would burst into hypocritical flames. But this is a really good idea. I have a lot of clients that a have tons of old hardware that they can't get rid of because of the cost involved in doing so. Now Apple will cover that cost, and make a little money by stripping the precious metals off the techo-trash. This is a great example of the free market's Invisible Hand. Bravo Apple, well done.

    1. Re:Great idea by semi-extrinsic · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I don't get it. In my country, any store selling electronics is required by law to accept old electronics of the same type for recycling, free of charge, regardless of whether it was sold at that store or not. Isn't this a common practice?

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  2. Re:Macs by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 3, Informative

    Red Delicious are one of the worst. Braeburn is where it is at- sweet and tart at the same time- firmer than a "delicious". It's also more fun to say "Braeburn, braeburn, braeburn." If you don't like saying the word Braeburn you're not really living.

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  3. In the United States of America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sure that is common practice in Atheistic Socialist Hell-scapes but...

    In the United States we pray for Invisible Hands [econlib.org] to solve our problems...

    Bless his noodly appendage...

  4. Re:reminds me... by idontgno · · Score: 3, Insightful

    this is good, bringing a little more green-ish stuff to the world

    I really hope so, as opposed to being shipped off to some unfortunate third-world scrapper who'll slowly poison dozens of children in outdoor sweatshops.

    For all the visibility this will have, I expect that Apple will try to be careful to avoid that. But in the past, many "computer recycling" offers have cut out the hard parts and passed the savings on to themselves.

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  5. Re:"Recycling" by Twon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, their recycler is apparently certified by these guys:

    http://e-stewards.org/certification-overview/

    which looks substantially better than that.