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Apple Exits "Green Hardware" Certification Program
westlake writes "CNET reports that Apple is turning its back on the EPA supported EPEAT hardware certification program. One of the problems EPEAT sees are barriers to recycling. Batteries and screens glued into place — that sort of thing. There is a price for Apple in this: CIO Journal notes that the U.S. government requires that 95 percent of its electronics bear the EPEAT seal of approval; large companies such as Ford and Kaiser Permanente require their CIOs to buy from EPEAT-certified firms; and many of the largest universities in the U.S. prefer to buy EPEAT-friendly gear."
"give it to Apple for free environmentally responsible disposal / recycling."
No, you GIVE IT to a techie nerd that does not make $40.00 an hour so they can take it apart and fix it. Only scumbags turn in tech for recycling. honest people put it up on freecycle or give it away to a local hacker group.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Apple marketing created the illusion which it's products hid behind, the illusion has mostly evaporated under the glare of the truth. So Apple is basically acknowledging that it's market are the spoilt brats who don't give a crap about anything unless it is fashionable to do so, today, in the last hour, now. So it is squeezing out on cost to maximise profits because the spoilt brat market eventually becomes the no taste market, they have basically painted themselves in a corner. Fashionable fads always die, clothes, hairstyles, jewellery, food, cars, basically any imaginable accessory all go the route of the yoyo and hula hoop.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Any self respecting geek who buys Apple today with Apple's record has to turn in their geek card.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
if the issue is simply glue verses tabs or screws, it seems there might be some middle ground that can be worked out
You're right. Buy an Android. Just stating the obvious.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.