Apple offers cellphone recycling program
updated 10:20 am EST, Mon February 25, 2008
Apple recycling program
Responding to criticism from groups such as Greenpeace, Apple has implemented a new recycling program designed to reduce the damage of mass consumption. In addition to products like iPods, people can now also recycle cellphones, produced by any manufacturer. There are two main options for sending devices to Apple: they can either be delivered in person at an Apple Store, or else mailed to a central location.
If a person chooses mail, they can specify any quantity of phones or iPods. They must then decide whether to use either a print-out label on packaging of their own, or else a custom package shipped from Apple, which requires seven to 10 days for delivery. Both options are free to the customer.
The program supplements efforts at recycling computers and monitors, which can be accepted under any brand name so long as a person has also purchased a qualifying Apple system.
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Not good enough!
Sorry, Apple, too little, too late. You need a program that not only takes back these products, but also un-produces all the components. So plastics should be converted back into oils and checmicals. All mined materials need to be returned back to their unprocessed state and returned to the ground. Packaging boxes need to be unshredded and unmilled, then replanted as 20 year old trees (unless you used recycled materials, then it needs to be returned back to last years newspapers).
Then, since you insisted on paying someone to actually make these products, all people involved must reconstruct all food they ingested due to your payments back into their appropriate living animals/vegetable materials.
Only then will you get Greenpeace's seal of approval!