{"id":14238,"date":"2016-04-21T10:24:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14238"},"modified":"2016-04-21T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:24:20","slug":"almost-nothing-about-the-apple-harvests-gold-from-iphones-story-is-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/21\/almost-nothing-about-the-apple-harvests-gold-from-iphones-story-is-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Nothing About the “Apple Harvests Gold From iPhones” Story Is True"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Koebler<\/a> (via Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Here is the truth: Apple paid independent recyclers to recycle old electronics—which were almost never Apple products, by the way—because it’s required by law to do so. Far from banking $40 million on the prospect, Apple likely ended up taking an overall monetary loss. This is not because Apple is a bad actor or is hiding anything, it’s simply how the industry works.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

In this sense, electronics recycling often works a lot like carbon offset credits, according to Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, a company focused on helping people reuse and repair their electronics rather than recycle them.<\/p>\n

“What they really do is cut recyclers a check and say ‘Can we have credit for a million of your pounds?” Wiens told me.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“The ironic thing is most of the gold is in old PCs and servers,” Wiens said. There’s very little gold in an iPhone.”<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason Koebler (via Slashdot): Here is the truth: Apple paid independent recyclers to recycle old electronics—which were almost never Apple products, by the way—because it’s required by law to do so. Far from banking $40 million on the prospect, Apple likely ended up taking an overall monetary loss. This is not because Apple is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,1358,85],"class_list":["post-14238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-environment","tag-iphone"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14239,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14238\/revisions\/14239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}