> Another phone goes to landfill
That's disingenuous. Apple has a recycling program, where they take apart every component to be reused or recycled into new materials.[1]
[1]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/04/apple-adds-earth-day-...
That's disingenuous. Apple has a recycling program, where they take apart every component to be reused or recycled into new materials.[1]
[1]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/04/apple-adds-earth-day-...
7.8 million "Apple devices"[0] in 2018 is a lot, but an average iPhone is far more likely to end up on a landfill. If it were easy to extract the battery, that wouldn't be such a problem.
[0] They group them all together and I can't find any other metric: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/apple-expands-global-...