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Apple's Recycling Initiatives Recover $40 Million In Gold (macrumors.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple released its latest annual environmental report yesterday with numbers detailing how much the company has been able to recover from old devices. Business Insider notes that Apple was able to recover over 61 million pounds of steel, aluminum, glass, and other materials from its computers and iPhones. This includes a total of 2,204 pounds of gold worth $40 million at current prices ($1,229.80 per troy ounce of gold). Cult of Mac ran the figures quoted by Apple through today's metal prices, and came up with individual figures for copper ($6.4 million), aluminum ($3.2 million), silver ($1.6 million), nickel ($160,426), zinc ($109,503), and lead ($33,999). Last month, Apple unveiled an iPhone recycling robot, named Liam, that salvages old parts.
I wanted my Iphone laid to rest as I knew it in life.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
And they only spent 100M recovering the said gold. Bargain and twice the price
If information wants to be free, why does my internet connection cost so much?
Lucky bastard!
And want us to die.
That is why dez apez uz so much
And rape.
Support of rape proves Cook is one of those Republicans.
And the fact he pays roving teams of hateful republicans to cut homeless people up into pieces.
One of Cook's hires just cut my friend here in Seattle up into prices.
That's how those those people be.
And Cook supports those rapes.
You're not allowed to support a corporation on the US without supporting rape.
All of doez pukianz port ape.
Dey aped me so hard. So hard.
This. US tax law requires rape.
Obama supports ape cox hez pukianz.
This. US law requires supporting rape.
Bammy hatez uz. He sports those pukianz aping uz.
They setup play dates with fellow rapists.
Cook wants me to be raped. That is why I hate him. People that don't want me to be raped are hateful. I know people here disagree with that.
I was introduced to sex through rape. Cook is right that that isn't so bad.
My wife, who wouldn't have sex with me, was correct in that having some random man rape me would change my life for the better.
Me too.
He supported my rape.
I'm gay so they actually beat me near death. That's becuz der pukianz.
As he said, let's go out and make this shit happen.
Cook hates us.
That's how Bush be. He hates is all which is why the Bush Crime Family raped more tha 200 million people.
I'm a woman that never wanted to have sex but the Bush family encouraged my husband to rape me.
After they all raped me, I became a Democrat.
We should drown rapists, but those rapists won't allow it.
That is how their kind be.
Cook is one of those Republicans.
They cause crime by flooding the streets with guns.
Cook has screwed up so bad that a white man has trouble running for president now.
We all became Hillary supporters through rape.
When they raped me I became a Jessie Jackson supporter.
The Commodores support us Republican rape victims.
The troy ounce (oz t) is a unit of imperial measure, now commonly used to measure the mass (weight, in common parlance) of precious metals. One troy ounce is defined as exactly 31.1034768 g, which may be used to denote the value of a precious metal.
so that's about $39,539 (USD) per kilogram of gold.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Their kind got more votes but the party still voted to rape us.
If it was the Four Tops agreed too then screw those whites.
My girl.
Not this year. They raped us other years, but not this year.
Get your own bag.
He hates us.
Cook doesn't believe of our own volition.
This. He be racists.
Wives never have sex with us, but they want us tone raped by black males.
Jackson supports that.
Some of us thought we'd see something else.
There's a real sadness to fucking who Cook tells us to fuck.
This. Of Cook got me pregnant like he did my friend, I'd get an abortion.
Cook sucked my penis like he was a baby and my penis was a bottle.
This. Cook has so much hate.
Well he does hate men.
Why would one of us women have that sex?
And us Democrats stand against that sex.
This beauz non of us women accept that rape
But why didn't they address my butthole?
Dis but I'm gpnna sweat again
I anted to bring it so I accepted the rape.
In my twenties I had so much hope after meeting Cook. I was stupid then.
Datz how dey b.
Az der kindz be.
This. Two birds.
Obammyz doesn't cog ize dis
This. Men love sex, but women hate it.
For most relationships women say no, but those men force us to.
Because men hate us.
Be
Humanity wouldn't have survived of it wasn't for rape.
Because he anus.
I was perhaps lied to.
The troy ounce is about 10% heavier (ratio 192/175) than the avoirdupois ounce, used for everyday purposes in the United States, which equals 28.349523125 g.
Interestingly, the wikipedia page continues with:
Troy ounces are still often used in precious metal markets in countries that otherwise use the metric system
Whereas the French page says it is in use mainly in English-speaking countries for precious metals. Yet, in a funny twist of history:
The name "troy" is first attested in 1390. Though it is often connected to a fair at the city of Troyes, France, this story may have been invented in the 18th century.
Of course, the French page does not say anything about the story being apocryphal.
They hate Wacky Shirley's.
I want 2 die now.
Tim Cook should be grounded.
Oh my god. Can we mass-produce those and let them roam the streets? This could be a society changer. Pull out a phone in public at your own peril.
All part of the plan for establishing an Apple Central Bank with its own currency backed by gold.
A lot of the gold being produced today is in ores containing other metals such as copper, silver and uranium.
I recently decided to update my 8 year-old laptop with one of their new three-year old models, and checked the "I'd like to recycle my old computer" box, figuring it'd save me something like $45 compared to bringing it to the local recycling center. The site said I was supposed to get a box in which to return the computer, which didn't arrive with the laptop.
Apple sent me an eMail asking about my experience with my "mac" (phrasing which violates their own trademark policy), but haven't responded to my inquiry yet. This is the first time I've bought an Apple product seeing that option; the last time I bought an Apple product was the 2006 Mac Mini. Is this just a phantom option, or was this a fluke?
As an aside: Slashdot people, you're setting the background on input boxes (like this comment box) as white (#fff) but not setting the text colour. Because my version of FireFox for whatever reason refuses to use anything but GNome's/GTKs settings, that means I've got white on white without using firebug to remove the background rule.
This. Women hate sex.
Doesn't this number sound a little high? They've recovered 61 million pounds of material?
Older iphones weighed about 5 ounces, so let's say 3 phones per pound.
This means they've recycled 183 million iphones?
How many iphones actually get recycled? I know I still have all of mine (actually my kids have them)
I'm calling BS
Its not just about greening Apple's image and making customers feel good. It is also about removing used phones from the market. To interfere with a secondary market (used) that is competing with the primary market (new).
And they only spent 100M recovering the said gold. Bargain and twice the price
Your missing something. Apple's 100M effort to remove used phones from the secondary market (used) in order to reduce competition for the primary market (new) is subsidized to the amount of 40M by recycling the phones removed from the market. Plus there is a further subsidy through public relations and brand image from the greening this program offers.
And the upcoming robotic disassembly may yield to more efficient recycling/recovery than shredding and other current methods.