[Themaintainers] Giving Up Apple in the Name of Repair and the Environment

[Felipe Fonseca]

This is a great post, thank you for sharing.

To the point here:

"Third, recycling is never as efficient as keeping an object in use. The
best thing we can do for the environment is to keep devices in play for as
long as possible. Yet, Apple has a history of cracking down on third-party
refurbishers. Apple requires recyclers working on its products to shred
MacBooks, iPhones, and other devices “into tiny shards of metal and glass
<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yp73jw/apple-recycling-iphones-macbooks>”
rather than follow industry best practice and harvest them for parts that
could be used to repair other devices and keep them going. Apple also
successfully pushed Amazon to remove unauthorized refurbishers
<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjexb5/amazon-is-kicking-all-unauthorized-apple-refurbishers-off-the-site>
from its marketplace."

I am always surprised to see how much recycling is commonly associated with
sustainability, when it is by definition an industrial activity with huge
environmental impact. I'm trying to explore alternatives as part of my PhD
research on smart cities (and waste/reuse). My humble contribution to this:

https://is.efeefe.me/opendott/waste-value-and-reuse

All the best,

F

Em qui., 27 de fev. de 2020 às 12:36, Juan Felipe Espinosa <
juan.felipe.espinosa at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Really good stuff Lee.
>
> Thanks for sharing.
>
> Best,
>
> Juan Espinosa
>
>
> El jue., 27 feb. 2020 07:09, lee vinsel <lee at themaintainers.org> escribió:
>
>> Hi, Marco.
>>
>> Here's a copy of the essay.
>>
>> Thanks for your interest.
>>
>> Lee
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 3:09 AM M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 11:53:56 AM -0500, lee vinsel wrote:
>>> >    Hi, everybody.
>>> >
>>> >    ... I realized after the piece came out that I could no longer
>>> >    buy Apple products in good conscience. I wrote about how I came
>>> >    to that conclusion in a new post. Happy to hear thoughts and
>>> >    feedback, if you have any:
>>> >
>>> https://medium.com/@sts_news/giving-up-apple-in-the-name-of-repair-and-the-environment-dbd53bc2fa26
>>>
>>> Hi Lee. Important stuff like this should be immmediately accessible to
>>> everybody, and with as little data harvesting as possible. But that
>>> piece is not readable without registering with Medium. Can you repost
>>> somewhere else?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>         Marco
>>> --
>>>
>>> M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com
>>> http://stop.zona-m.net
>>>
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>>> software is used *around* you
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