Apple will collect any of their devices for recycling in most countries, https://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/ https://www.apple.com/recycling/natio

Apple will collect any of their devices for recycling in most countries, https://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/ https://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/ From what I understand they built special-purpose robots to disassemble the past several phone versions and recover most of the content. I imagine they can recover the glass and frame from laptops; not sure what happens to the microchips. It would be interesting to see some data about how long a typical device from each manufacturer continues to see active use, and how often they get repaired. I am skeptical that e.g. the typical consumer-owned Dell/Asus/etc. laptop stays around any longer than typical Apple laptop. Anecdotally I know a bunch of people whose PC laptops were pieces of junk when they bought them, and didn’t last more than a couple years before they threw them out for a new model, and also some people who mostly buy used 3–4 year old Apple hardware.