How Apple Recycles Old iPhones

Earlier this year Apple announced the number of active, in-use iPhones has risen to over a billion for the first time. Pretty cool. Until you remember one day they’ll all need disposing of.

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What Does Apple Do With Old iPhones?

[NinjaForHire]

Them refurbished phones better have new batteries.

[JakeMercierFilms]

1:27 That’s not a clip of Austin. That’s Dallas, Texas!

[amartyawaghmare]

I love the way he always ends the video in context to the content...
3:01 "And don't forget to subscribe for more carefully recycled tech content."

[snowhunter]

Okay, but the rest of its competitors should do similar recycling systems.

[johnl.]

I don’t think Apple will receive too many broken iPhones since people won’t get any vouchers for them.

[gamil]

What apple does ?
He collect the notches to put them in the new MacBook 2021

[misterbig]

What does Li Tong do to materials that cannot be reused from the e waste?

[melsyoutube]

my question is, what does apple do with their discontinued models? For example, what happened to all the iPhone12/pro models on the day that they were removed from the apple website? were they destroyed?

[mmarjisr]

hey recycling old mobile devices to have a 2nd life in someone else's hands is a good idea it's better than placing it in landfills

[FreeThePorgs]

Trade in!!!! They get it, fix it up and resell it!!!
Turn it in for recycling via apple store directly or requesting a package that can be mailed to you. While you may or may not get something for it, it at least keeps it out of the trash and is recycled properly.

[michaelhii]

apple recieves your old phone for free, slap the new label on it and resell it

[ronlevin]

Refurbished should be last step

1 should be reuse
2 repair

and only then refurbish

This is how we save the environment

Apple care only for money, not environment.

[radsrads]

What I'm searching for is what they do to the iphone that haven't sold and activated

[tsbrownie]

Go to Asia and you can find thousands of 2nd hand iPhones in shops. They are 10:1 more than all used Android phones.

[hipetwa]

Here in africa especially south africa we dont accept refurbished iphone we get them new

[teekev]

Let's be clear about this, Apple would not do this unless it was good for their bottom line. As I always have said, I will not recycle anything until it makes economic sense. Apple has found a way to make recycling old phones pay for them.

Great vid, and thanks

[TheMattsem]

They gather all the old iPhones melted together to make a colossal statue of Steve Jobs

[RileyBofficialYouTube]

There’s a big issue now Apple broke the contract with the resellers so now when you trade a phone, they are shredding it up even if it’s in a perfect condition

[xsjdnxkx]

you wronfully put another city picture when you mentioned austin, that is not austin

[leponpon]

I like that phrase: 2:45 "...so Apple does its best to extract value from your old iphone..." though this value extraction had already begun the moment they signed the contract for shipment of freshly mined/recovered raw materials from the overexploited parts of the developing world. I'd prefer not to white wash/green wash the act of value extraction by these capitalist hoarders. The problem is not Capitalism as a system, the problem is we never get the right people in authority of the system. But we'll probably never find the right people when the game is so rigged already.