“Recycler gets sued by Apple for 31M DOLLARS for reusing instead of recycling ”

Contracts and agreements aside, isn’t the reuse of devices actually less polluting than recycling itself?

I know this is not the point, but still.

By a decent margin, yes.

There's a reason it's "reduce, reuse, recycle" in that order, but obviously companies are not interested in their customers reducing their consumption, nor are they interested in letting them reuse or repair too much. They want us to buy something shiny and new on a regular basis, and to throw away our old devices for destructive recycling so they can't be reused or repaired.

“Obviously” - or not - since more working devices means more services revenue.

Recycling is a cop out and companies should not be allowed to use it as green badge. What some of the people at recycling company did might be technically wrong but apple throwing away 1000s of working devices is worse

Apple has a refurbishing program where customers get a certified refurbished produce with a warranty. What happened in this (YouTuber reading of an) article is theft.

https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished

Just Apple doing Apple stuff.

Hi Louis Rossmann!