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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. 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. 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...

  3. 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.