Apple devices have become increasingly difficult to take apart for service and recycling. The company has removed 39 of its products from a global registry of environmentally friendly devices. The move may prevent the company’s hardware from being purchased by a wide variety of customers – including the U.S. federal government.
Criticism for Apple’s recyclability came to a head recently when the hardware site iFixit noted that the new MacBook Pro with Retina display used a copious amount of glue to bind the display, case and boards within the device together. As iFixit discovered, this makes the device very hard to service and recycle
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