Apple’s Recycling Drive is Better Than Nothing

Lonnie Lazar ()

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Apple is getting down with the ‘Green is the New Black’ concept in a limited, though nonetheless laudable way.

The company is offering to re-cycle, free of charge, any school’s old, unwanted Mac computers, PCs, and other qualifying electronic waste, as long as schools register by July 31, 2009.

The program will only run for one month, until August 31, 2009, and schools must recycle a minimum of 25 pieces in order to participate.

Special consideration is being given to data security, according to Apple, which promises:

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* All recycled hard drives will be ground into confetti-size pieces.
* Customers will receive a certificate of destruction for each lot recycled through the program.
* All asset tags and other identifying information are removed prior to destruction.
* All of the electronic waste collected through the program is processed domestically in the United States.

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Lonnie Lazar

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  • fred

    Thanks for the cookies, mom, they were better than nothing. Thanks for the educational take back program, Dell, it was… oops.

    Um, thanks for vapid, know nothing headline, it was… oh, never mind.

  • Scott

    Lonnie, you really need to do your homework. Apple has always recycled computers but it required you to request a shipping label, find your own box etc. All they are doing now is admitting that schools might have a huge amount of stuff in which case, Apple will arrange for someone to come pick it up. the limited time is likely cause they will try to batch run things so that, for example, one truck comes to San Diego for all the schools (which saves time and fuel) rather than a truck every few days for a different one.