Recycling Electronics With Apple’s Robot Daisy

RE: Recycling Electronics With Apple’s Robot Daisy

station240 — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:22:19 GMT

1) Reduce

2) Reuse

3) Recycle

Not making products that fail before they should is the first step.

Apple also hate Right to Repair, so the second step reuse, is also being ignored.

RE: Recycling Electronics With Apple’s Robot Daisy

michaelkellett — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:58:11 GMT

Oh Cabe! stop eulogising Apple and do the maths:

If this thing does 200 phones an hour that's 1.752 million phones a year if it goes 24/7 with no down time. At that rate they would need 57 of these machines to deal with the existing 1 billion phones in 10 years. So this machine represents a rather less than significant effort.

Apple could do 100x more good by supporting Right to Repair but that might impact sales.

(The factor of 100x is pulled out of the air by me but is as justifiable as the Apple corporate hype.)

RE: Recycling Electronics With Apple’s Robot Daisy

mcb1 — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 04:15:45 GMT

Yes well after being caught out modifing the operating system to encourage users to 'upgrade' it's about time they considered the downstream affects.

Germany seems to be at the forefront of recycling ... I haven't heard what they do with their eWaste.

Mark